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chine Code • Music • Comms • Amos • DTP

f Fi¥* yeors t* Hb nwntll crfrer Pretext version 1 wds

iMPiidM Arnor are pl«Q$9d fa pnssenr version 5, on enorm<ius leap
lof word in both eose at uu and performance.

Prole st 5.0 iittrada<es a completely integrofed syslem of pull down mcflus
and diobgue box^s^ The menus ore among the many operaMans rhor may now
be lorrfeJ out wiiti eilh^r fht mwse or the Iteybowd. Piotext really does give
you the besi of both wof Ids .

Profexl 5.0 handler printer t^ts flexibly and atcurolely. You cofi make full u^
of any number of proportional prints fonts, mix ihem finely wiihin any line,
cenrre them fn headers, us« automatically formatted footnotes. And Protext
eorrecfiy formats your text as you type it, no motler how many font changes
you uso, showing you line oikI page breaks sxartly us tWy wM be printed.

Prolext S.O \% still the foslesl word processor orovnd. Even thovgh w'» bove
mode all these major improveir^enls we hove token gr&al Cflr« to ensure thot
text editing is as fast as ever. The menus work smootfily and quickly even
with high rosolution displays. Bvt of raurse^ you tan use Proltxt's eff icieni set
of commafKJs and keys just as befort oikI S.O remains <M*ipatible wilh ol
eorlier versions from 1 M onwards.

Pretext 5,0 is a wotthy successor to version 4, whidh was described as ^the
best word processor at ony price "'^ '^Ibe besi text processor on the Amigo''
and ^the most powerful word pro<essof on the Atori iV (Alll, Si/Amiga
Forma!, ST User).

Protext S.O heralds a new eta of muhi-lingval European sof twore, in time for
m2 and the opening up of Eastern Europe. Protext may be used in at least
37 different languages and has 10
different national keyboard layouts
built in [plus the capability to define

your own symbols and

keyboard byoulsj-

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The Features

^ Hew fast & easy to use pull down
menu system with diulogyfr boices and
alerts; file seterlor: mou^g dragging to ^t^
^ blocb. Menu5 complemenl exisling
commai^ds end keyhcMrd shortEuts, do
not f ^place them. Menus r^iy be used
wilh mouse or keyhHird. Amiga version
fpltows Imurtion guidelines.

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y Enhan<ed printing cop abilities supports rmjhiple proportional Fonts; mixing of
different font sizes on the some tine; proponional formfllting whilst editing; side

margin, heudirs cind footers ind^petident of main lext font. Tabs, decimal tabs and
tefilietDbs. himm rongeof printer drivers supplied.

> Multiple file editing - up lo 36 files may be open; split screen eifiting.

A Grupliics inode support on P[ allows iise in virtyolly on^y text or gropbics mode
including 1 32 cc^lumri ur 75 line VGA modes: user defied chorofters ond on-screen
bold, ]lali[s und underlining now on ell versions; use of 13 dierinl oitents on ony
diorartef.

;r Lattguage support milud^s idbanian, Bosque, Czech, Danish, Dufdi, Eniglish,
Eiperonto. Estonian, Ftemish, Rnfwsh. French, German, Hungorian, Irish, llolion, Loim,
Lrtbuanian. Honvegion, Polbh, Poriuguese, Riimaninn, SerbiMroalitin, Slovak, Spanish,
Slovene, Swedish, Welsh (No1e: some printers do nul support ull Jonguoges],

^f IndeK and contents generution. Indexer fakes tr^orfcedwo^ds m phfo&es; cnntefirs
entries automiJikQily lokeni from lilies wrcipped m control todes; many options for ^
of contents ouiput.

JV Spelling choAer fealures completely nm 1 1 0.000+ word Collins dictionary with my
fast pfiufiEtic lookup. Anogromsond find word pattern. Foreign language didioflarics
(Gei man, Swediish o^oiloblo now, otbers ta f albwj.

;V Many other enhanEeme-nt^ including mdti-line foo!notes ond endnoies; automutk
timed sove; add column or f ow of figures; indeni tobs; find word i3it [Ufsor; +0 column
mdde suppoct; sentent^ operations; inter- parogroph spoce; much impraved exprtssiM
fi^aluator; self incrementing variables; Ronron nurnerols; newspaper-sfyle column
' printing; file ^riling utility with sp^iol options far nomes ond oddresses; revised manual
plu^ new tutoriol guide.

.V And don't forger Prolext stiff includes backgroumi printing; box fnonipulalton;
macro recording; flxei files; headers and foolers; find end replace; moil mecging;

u^ndelete; file conversion uSitity; configurali^on progrom; outo reformatting; on scrwn
help; lime and dole; typewriter made; line diowing; disc uliJil^es,

Frices

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CONTENTS

REGULARS

What^s new

\f its ^dppenfng, il's here. %\x pages packM **

with the latest ngws, inclLding location reportj 7

FEATURES

Back to the future

After Amiga Computing'! 3rd birthday pafty
Eddie McKendrfck g&ls nostalgic...^,,.,,,.,,,..

38

Public Domain

Our regular guide to the beit tn free software.
Paul Austin Mrts out the best from the rest ,„,,,,,,

79

Beginner's guide: CLI

Confused by the Amiga's Comittarid Line? q p

Let Stevie Kennedy lead the way,,,,,, ..........O^

Gallery

Proudly presenting a two page showeiase a O

of the very best Amiga art. „„. IkI

Write like a pro

Stevie Kennedy tahes a look at the latest
version of the Prowrfte word procetjor

The hard stuff

Our Technical Editor gets knee-deep in the
latest Amiga hardware offerings,.-.....* ,.

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67

iHFlll hl'tl'fcl-l-i

ACA$

The AmSgo Computing Advfct Service Is
always at hand with lech help „„...„.

ESP

Eira Surfs PastiaoK is crammed fuff of Am^ga
related correspondence from far k wJde.

117

143

Going for Gould

Chairman of Commodore, Irving Gouid h^s ^ ^

qyite a bit to say. Dun Maple listens in / J

The magic of MED

Paul Austin takes a look at the buiit-in sample g% m
editor sported by our old friend MED 3 ..r,r,...„...,y3

ME» VS-fiW a|l,»a9-.L*gA t >y T. iC Aiiriij.i-i*fi iqij^l

*' ' - ^»?S»' .,i*«f»*» B^njc mw^w

iHh-±DlitKr • lu^l-U^E^reLnmi ceiT -IWUfeE SUIT

Rock Lobster

I n the true tradition of ^ . .and flnal^f " the % M£^
Amiga Computing team wind dowii..,.H.,. ,. I T^O

THE GAME ZONE

The section of Amigo Computing that takes having
fun seriously! Previews, chartiand tips not to mention
reviews of BRAT. BARDS TALI JIL AlOTAJNK KILLER,
EYE OF THE BINOLDER, WARLOCK, PGA TOUR GOLF
and lUPERCARS IL Cet your joystick
ready for actjonl ,,„„ „ „_

Intensive care

What do you do tf your Amiga's heart stops
beating? Consult our silicon surgeon «.,.,.

99

Expand and deliver

Jason Holborn continues his qyest to 1 A 7

expand yomr Amiga to bursting point. mm^...^... I V#

43

Tlie Saxon angle

Richard Williams test drives the latest
Amiga Desktop Publishing sensation ,,,,.

112

COMPETITION

It's our birthday, and to celebrate we are
giving aw^iy a spectacular competition
prl2e. Remember if you dont enter you
can't WIN). r...

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i-U.*:- ^'"-ajailZi:"' ■■• 'WMkiiM^. •.■..\.i
13& l)TP„ .* „141

From icreen I
print. The
mysteries of
DTP revealed

AmJ^B Computing 5

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A NEW DEK

SOCCER au

BUSTERING PACE
■ PIXEL PERFECT PASSING

SUPERB TACTICAL
GAMEPIAY

KICK OFF 2 greatlv enhances the gameplay of KICK OFF, winner of the THE GAME OF THE YEAR in the
U,K.. and similar awards right across Europe. A host of new features have been added to the ones that
enthralled players the world over.

+ FtiH size rmxhi-dfavctjonal sdroOtng pitch with the pbyer^,
markifig5 etc. bi connect proportion.

* 1 to 4 players option. tAmiga and ST oiilyJ

+ 2 plavers TEAM optioii against the computer or 2 other ptayeifs.
Hundreds ofplav^ each with a unique combination of
attributes (stamina, pace, etc) and sJrflls (passing, shoottngp
tackling, etc.)

* Instinctive Ride OffJoYsttck controls to dilbfale. pass, $hoot,
head or chip the baO and do slldtng tackles.

* Set ptec« FREE KICKS including dummies and the ability to dip
the bafl or bend the ball rotmd a defensive waB.

* 9 types of comer kicks with fiill control of ^ot power. Long
and shod throw ins.

* Team selection from a sqtiad of 16 with substttution and a
choice of tactics,

* League and cup compe^tions with Extra Time, Injuiy Time
and sudden death penal^ shoot oats.

^ Fadltty to view, edit and save the Action Replays and create

a Golden Shots di$c.(ExcL IBM & CBM 64) ^

* Facility to load Placyei Manage- teams and tactics for a &in^e or leagtie game

^ Red and yellow caid^, 1 6 di|^cnt referees. iqrixrY time and a host of features to create an atmosphere for a game which Is
real fun to play. -^^

ST ACTION - The best game ewer to grace the ST. Highest actobde

I CJ^n give.

AMIGA USER INT - The besi computer game ever 97%

THE ONE - Ultamale soccer ^mylatJQn 96%

THE ACE - Brilliant Buy. Buy. Buy 930

AMIGA FORMAT - Be-^t rooty game lo have appeared on any machine

ST FORMAT - What a gaine! Gem to play. Magic 90%

C ft VG - Championship wiiining material. 95%

GAMES MACHINE - Probably the besi spods game ever 92%

COMMODORE U5ER ^ No other footie game can touch it 90*

AMIGA ACTION - Surpasses aEI other fcotbaU games. 93%

POPUIAR CQMPlinNC WEEKLY - Nothing short of brilliant.

NEW COMPUTER EXPRESS - Computer footbaU event of

the year.

94K

AMIGA & ST £19.99 EXP. AMIGA £24.99
IBM CAT & XT Turbo. EGA h VGA) £24.99
CBM 64 - SPECmUM ^ AMSTEyU> £9.99, £14.99

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An International class player takes charge of a third divisran dub as Player Manager. His brief is simple
-Bring Back The Qory Days^

His success depends on his playing sklls on the pitch and managerial sMQs in devising winning tactics,
aquiring the right players from the transfer market and building a team worthy of the highest honours.

* Unique fiicUity tg design and JmpCem^nt your own tactics.

* Over 1000 individtial players. ca^A with a untque combination of attribates and sktils.

* A Uvdy transfa- market. Haggle for the best deal.

* 4 division league and a cup touftiiiment wtth sudden death penaltv shoot <™t, ^

Th^ Fl^Y^T U^nami hrmm tJie^even^ day reaMes of a manager's M^, Hs talents as a manaa^r and a
player, fns tnumphs andliis failtiKsinto a sharp FOCUS.

SI. ACnON - A stroke of pure genjus.

THE ONE - An exceptional rootbaH manage nn^nt .simuIaCon, Astounding depfth. Mosl hwolved. rewarding and playable

THE ACE ■ Successfully bfends challenging soccer managenient with frantic end lo end arcade action. 920

NEW COMPiniR EXPRESS The sheer deplh is inciedibJe . A definitive management game

COMMODORE USER - A{ last a itmnagememgame thai requires

true mana^rnent sMDs - a winner. 94%

ST FORMAT - Btil \uirt. S3%

AMIGA FOHMAT - En thraffiflf and nddirHvp M^

ZZAF - Best f[>otban mat-La-j^cn it^r-.i same ever written. 92%

AMIGA

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DIENSION IN
\ SIULATIONS

THE FINAL WHISTLE
Amiga - ST £12.99 (RdKovj

Rais€5 the skills required and gameplav of JlCK OpF 2 to
new heights.

Two extra khs.

Look at airy player stats, (attiiEmCes and skUl} bcfoi^ selecting s^iad.

Totally new comer kldcs with fiiD contfCiLof the pow^, belg^it and tr^ectory o(
the bain.

Enhanced \btavif Ins and penalty shots.

Provision to flick the ball In the a^ and do a bih^Ut^ headier or a speertat^iilaf
overhead kick.

New two playei^ feam mode. Flayei 1 In position or neaiest to the boE arid
player 2 tn position or keeper. I

Linesmen and rcfetee on the pitch. J

A new player attribute FLAIR. A player wttM high level of Oalr will tiy a solo
attempt at the goal f

4 new pitches - Wembley - Icy Muddy - Non-Leagftte

And Lot's Moie

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WINNING TACTICS (£6.^^^ Rei Nov ) - A coHeclfcn of tactics for
use in Player Manager or K02 with fiill explanations,

RETURN TO EUROPE (£9.99 - m. Dec.) - Three European cup
competitions, UEFA cup - European Cup - Cup "Winners Cup.

tGlANTS OF EUROPE {m l99i) Best teams of Europe on one
(disc.

X.94X

STR^TEGY..J(EALITY...

Heralded the American computer
role-playing game of the year!

Based on
MegcrtoveUeT by
Game Designers
Woikshop, the
world's most
popular sdence-
iicUon gaming
system.

The most sophisticated
chcuacteT generation
system ever devised:
five militarir classes.
more than seventy
talents and
cibiliti^. Allows
player to control
chCEQCter development
through five services: Army; Navy,
Marines. Merchants and Scouts.

TAKES SOEMCE HOION SOLE^PLAYING JJGHT YEABS FORWABD

Twenty-eight planets and
satellites to exploie in eight
systems filled with exciting
pu2z[es. dangerous subjects and
interesting characters to
encounter.

^egotiavelleT 1 is one of the best
science-fiction role-playing
gomes ever for the oomputei"

"MegatToveller 1 , a game that:
truly wcntcmts the highest level ol
praise, the ottention to
detail mokes it
exceptionol"

Dragoon m uymii^ US -dlld
Q,i£st Busfem mogozLne US^

AEf^Qss and ST 3ropieTrenScrb£3na
by STeVe^r Gs^m

The

jKh 1 best

selling Jboolc lias now

turned

into the no, 1 best

selling game

Team Yankee is the deiinitive action simulation of modem tank warfare.

Team Vonkee.... the critics' choice-"

Team Yankee is designed to test your Jeadership and tacticai skiU£ to the

quick.

AMIGA FORB^T

Team Yankee presents a game,
in a Sims clothing, which when
dealing with tonk$ has to be the
perfect oppxoocW

ACE

The Mend of thought and
reflexes required to ploy Team
Yankee is exoclly right!

ST FORMAT

Hunting the Red Bear has never

been so much funJ

You woni be able to teai yourseli

Cfwoy from Team Yankee!

EbAPIRE SOFTWARE, 4 THE STANKETTS, LAINDON MORTH TRADE CEMT^,

VASILDON. ESSEX SS1$ &DJ. T£L: 02^6

SniATEGY PLUS
This is a game and a hall!
The use oi four screens in
one Is simply brilliant - at
times its almost like
playing on foui
computers at oncd
1 quickly found
m yseU hooked on a
genre of game
which previously
held no inteiest.

AMIGAACnOH

The tanks hove been superbly
animated, with great crttentiQn to detoiU
This has to be a must for evetyonet

AVAlLJlBLE NOW FOR
ATARI SZ COMMODORE AMIGA AND IBM PC 8c COMPATIBLES

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- the wait
is over!

Commodore finally stop crying wolf

and unveil a CD player that thinks it's

an Amiga, as Eddie McKendrick reports

MONTHS of speculation about
Commodore's fledgling multi-
media product CDTV are finally
over. On Tuesday April 30
Comniodore officially Intro-
duced their Dynamic Total
Vision to the world.

Due to go on sale later this
yeaf with a price tag of around
£700, CDTV is similar in appear-
ance to a standard compact disc
player, but it Is capable of a vari-
ety of interactive leisure and
educational applications.

With the CDTy users will l>e
able to simultaneously call up
video images, text, graph fcs and
stereo audio through a simple
fnfra red remote control unit.

The greatest potential for
CDTV lies in the educational

field where programs are being
developed which exploit th€
machine's multimedia capabilfty.

A Commodore spokesman
explained: '*Vou can call up a
picture of the African hy$h con'-
tatning a number of wild ani-
mals.

^Uslng the control unit you
can then select one of the ani-
mals and up on screen comes a
detailed picture with descriptive
te^t and the sound of the partic-
ular animal or a commentary."

A pilot scheme underway
with Derbyshire County Council
is using CDTV to teach Japanese
to local schoolchildren.

As well as hearing the spoken
language, children are able to
see pictures depicting lapinese

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culture. As no keyboard Is neces-
sary, CDTV can be operated by
people with no previous key-
board experience.
CDTV exploits the technology

of CD-ROM (compact disc read
only memory) using discs with a
storage capacity equivalent to
around 720 floppy disks our
about 2S0,O0O pages of text.

Delivering the goods

Ind^Mndent research commissioned by Amiga (^Qfnputing has revealed
that major High street outlets do not ej^pect to have large stocks of
Commoctore's CDTV home enLertainment system until October.

Despite the official launch our survey showed that CDTV is likely to be a
slow starter with one retail chain e?(pecting only smati stocks by mid-May
and others still m the liark about availability.

Information for the buying pubflc is woefyily inadequate. Under the
guise of a custoTTier keenly interested in buying CDJV, our reseanchefs con-
tacted approH^ed stockists DiMons, John Lewis
and Comet. Sales staff in one major Dixgns
outlet thought CDTV was ''a sort of tetevt-
ston" while staff at another branch aslced: "Is
it some kind of games console?'' Neither had
any knowledge of availability.

A third Dixons. store sand they had no idea
wtien they would get CDTV but they would
try and order it white the manager oF a fourth

^CDTVmaybehereas
far as Commodore is

outlet said; "We've got it in our price list but because of pre-production
delays I doni think we will have it in stock until October"

A spokesman at D icons' head offke said; "We have no information on
when thfs wiil te available but we hope it will be wfthin the n^t month.
We are just waiting for Commodore^ hut the price has been fi^s^ed at
£599.99." Our researchers drew a compfete blank ^t the John Lewis store
In Londqn'i Oxford Street, Even when given a description of the new
machine, a senior member of staff said they had no knowledge of it. jft

""It's not on our li^t for this half-yeaF. Maybe'
we will have it next half," was the reply.

Over at Cornet^ staff in two relaH oiutkts
referred us to head office where a spokesman
satd: "We will have CDT^ in some of our selected

C0nC6rn6d but nO-OnC hflS ^^^^^^^ ^y ^nld May but we certainSy do not
' expect to have it generalFy available until

told the High street' --;l,,,,,.

Amiga Computing 9

WHAT'S Amiga's in education go down a bundle

Smooth operator

ANTIA is a font erihancem^nt utility

which performs an anti-aliasing pro-
cess &n nornnai Amiiga fonts.

From one ofiginal font slze^ it can
pfthduce up Ua nine scaled down ver-
sions, snti-alijised using four brightness
leweis.

AntiA runs on all Ami gas. It can
handle type sij::e^ up to 300 points,
jihfipugh ji 512k machine will be limit-
ed to sizes of around 2O0 points. A
68020/30 is useful in speeding up ttie
prcM;essing gf very large point sizes^ but
not essential. AntiA i^ available now at
a RRP of £40. Contact ZEN Coinputfir
Services on Q61 793 1911

24 bits on the side

AMIGA screen files can now be con-
verted into 24 bit colour slides or
film of full cin«mi quili^ thanks to a
new development from Amiga
Centre Scotland (031 557 4242).

Cine Link is a modyie fqr use with
the company'5 Im^ge Link package,
now re-christened Rastar Link. It
drives a number of digital filrn
recorders, allowing Amiga files to be
transmitted to them via tfie SCSI
port.

They are then converted into
2,000 or 4,000 line resolutBon pic^
tijres. Cine Link can also be teamed
with a cine camera to produce cine
film animations in up to 4,000 line
resolution and full 24 bit colour. As
Amiga Computing went to press, the
price of Cine Link was not definite
hut should be in the region of £230.
Raster Link costs £155. This provides

COMMODORE has escalated its assault on the education
market by offering education auliiorrties and schools the
chance to buy an Amiga 500 and one of 14 software
packages for £299 plus VAT - a saving of £1 00.

The offer has been niade in response to education
minister Kenneth Clarke's request for computer manufac-
turers to be competitrve in their education pricing.

It includes a 500 with 1Mb of ram and a choice of
Amiga Logo with Talking Turtle, DPaint II, D Print II,
Dpaint III, BBC Emulator,
Fanta Vision, Max i Pi an 500,
Superbase Personal, Pro Write
2.5, Music Mouse, Or. T's
Music Recording Studio,
InfoFi^e, Photon Paint or
Spritz.

To ensure that those tak-
ing advantage of the offer
are bona fide education
users. Commodore are deal-
ing witli all orders them-

sekes - passing them on to accredited dealers in tfie
appropriate area. ""We are policing this offer very closely
to make sure that the right people are buying the com-
puters, " said Commodore's national sales manager for
education, Peter TalboL "So far we have had tremendous
respor^se from the government right down to the schools
themselves. We have a growing market share in educa-
tion and there hasg't been an offer as keen as this one
before". Commodore spokesman Andrew Bail added that

in the first month alone,
sales on the offer had
to tailed £250,000. Schools
wanting to buy the package
must provide ei-ther Iherr
DES numbef or an official
purchase order and the offer
closes on May 31 .

Further details can be
obtained from Commodore's
education sales desk on
0628 779677

'^We have a
growing market
share in
education and
there hain't
been an offer as
keen as this one

before'

p^ter Taibot

all the software necessary for the
conversion but the real shock to the
wallet comes with the purchase of
digital film recoiders which can run
into thousands of pounds.

tJnder the Spell

SPELLl, the computerised aid to
spelling that is now selling In
record numbers to Amiga users,
hai fcMjnd a new fari - Minister of
Education Tim Eggar.

He has written to Nicholas
Wlfiterton MP, anotber admirer of
the program: "The Government
welcomes such initiatives as a way
of raising standards in our schools."

And he added: "The Secretary of
State is concetned at the perceived
decline m the standard of spelling
among young people and is keen
that everyone in the world of edu-
cation should take sericHJS steps to
improve those standards. Good
spelling is essential in all branches
gf kncjwtedgfe".

Spurious price cuts

FOLLOWINC reports of price cuts
fof top-end Amigas in the USA,
Commodore UK spokesman
Andrew Ball has discotjnted
suggestions that the same
could happen on this side
of the Atlantic.

He told Amigo Comput-
ing: "These are just spuri-
ous rumours/'

The American price cuts
take in both Amiga 2000
and 3000 ranges and vary
from 10 to 26 per cenL

The Lowe
down
on ACS

MANAGING director Martin
Lowe reports that Amiga
Centre Scotland have
embarked on & substantial
cfwnge of direction. They are
now concentrating on
developmg low<ost advanc-
ed tecHnoiogy for bu$Eness,
television, the professions
and education.

"We intend to provide an
envaronment where a busi-
ness or education customer
can be shown a complete
range of computing hard-
ware and software, v*/'here
they can examine and try our
equipment and wtiere techni-
cal requirements can be iden-
tified and sattsfied/ he told
Amiga Compuling.

'Too few people and corporations in the UK are aware of the power
and price advantages of using the Amiga system. A fully-implemented
version of AT&T Unia; System V, rdesse 4, h now available on the Amiga,
hter nationally, many broadcast and video professionals have already dis-
covered the Amiga/

The validity of his decision was underlined by the successful appear-
ance oF AMS's 32- bit graphics board at top European computer
show CEBIT wtiere it attracted interest and orders from 40 coun-
tries.

■"Commodore displayed four of our bosrds on thwr trade
standr'' s^id Lowe, ''|apanese company Sharp also showed the
Harlequin/Amiga combination displaying images captured with
their top of the rainge scanners.

"Software developers in Europe and America are already pro-
ducing programs to take advantage of our techndogy."

Features in previous issues o^ Amiga Comput\r>g, the Harlequin
board substantially reduces the cost of generating broadcast quali-
ty, full colour images with an Amigar

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Games galore, but
serious VR was the
real draw

WITH a name like the Europeark
Computer Trade Show, you would
have thought the number of diff&r*
ert kinds of software and hardware
on show at Islington's Business
Design Centre would fiave been
legion.
You would have been wrong.
The order of the d^y - or rather
the order of the three days from April
14 to 16 mclusive - was gameSr
garfies and more games-
True, there was the odd bit of
hardware - though mostly joysticks,
CO aid the playing of games, and
mice, which in many cases serve the
sarre purpose — and severai purvey-
ors of educational and musk soft-
ware were in evidence.

But in the main, games reigned
supreme.

How strange to have to report,
then, that the stand which had the
most visitors queueing up was NOT
organised by a games outfit-
it was a virtual reality demon^tra-
tlor from Divison^ a company based
in Chipping Sod bury, near Sri sip I,
and which is involved in the more
serious side of VR,

AJthaugh consistently well popu-
lated, even the Psygnosis hospitality
suite, with those inevitable, loveable
little Lemmings everywhere, could
not raise the same amount of visitor
intefieit.

Division's main claim is that it has
made VR ^ practical proposition. !t
has done this by creating the hard-
ware and software that has moved

It was a case of games
nearly all the way at
the European Computer
Trade Show, but Richard
Williams managed to find the
more serious side, too

,v Hi-Tec sign up Bugi Bunny and Co*

l^l-TEC Software used the ECTS platform to announce a prestigious sign-
ing with a m^jor cartoon company. jfl
The company has signed contracts with giants Warner Bros, throwing™
open th& flood gates for a host of popular cartoon itars to appear on
computer software.
The charactefs made world-famous by Warner Bros over the years
'■ Indude Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Thudd, Sylvester andTweetle.
Hi-Tec has already achieved sutcess with characters from its other
major licensee, Hanna Sarbera . j^-

j^

this leadirtg-edge at^a of technology
away from being an expensive labo-
ratory plaything to a product that
can be quickly integrated into any
application which generates real
Lime images.

I must confess I didn't actually get
to don the eye-set for a demo^ tJie
queues being LOd long. But I did
manage a word with one of
Division's directors, Steve Ghee, who
told me the company was pushing
itsetf at the research market. The idea
is that Division provide the hardware
and software with which the cus-
tomer can write th«ir own pieces of
VR using a high-level language like

C, Most other companies involved in
VR are working on specific games.

One ot Division's customers is the
Advanced Robotics Research
Laboratory in Salford, Manchester,
The ARRL is putting together an
advanced robotic cor^trol system, in
which a robot is linked etectronically
to a human> and Lhe robot "learns'^
all the actions performed by the per-
son. The human hears and sees
exactJy the same things as the robot,

Steve Ghee says it is very, very

hard to build an intelligent machine.

But by using VR to put a human into

^the loop you can teach a robot how

to do certain things very quickly.

Cheetah and the Tortoise...

X

THE results of eighteen months of research and
development appeared on the stand of joystick
manufacturer Cheetah.

Visitors encountered what Cheetah described as
"the new generation of joystick technology '.

Cheetah is renowned for helicopter-style hand-
grip sticks, and after conducting extensive
research designed a new and innovative range of
controllers.

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controller available", sitting snugly and neatly in
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ity. The Tortoise is a green, ergonomically shaped
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slightest movement of the hand to different direc-
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TflOIAN, manufacturers of light-
phasers for use with the Amiga
and other computers, and who
also make lightpent for use with

the Amiga and Amstrad PCW, with
Atari ST/STE and PC vers^on<i coin-
ing soon, used the show as plat-
form for the announcement that it
has established its own software
house.

The idea is "to ensure a contin-
uing supply of quality software" to
support its products.

Trojan promised new titles for
all formats of Phazers would he
released at regular intervals during
T991 and beyond^ imminent
releases are The Enforcer, Alies and
Fire Star.

Trojan Icghtphasers and light-
pens each carry a rrp of £39^99,

Anyone thinking of contacting
Steve or his colleagues at Division for
a quote 00 a bespc^ke system had
better consult their bank manager
first. The kind of system being used
in Salford costs more than £50,000,
the eye-set and the electronic glove
being the most ej( pensive parts.

But there's hope A system
Division will be releasing in August
will cost £10,000,and Steve says
costs will continue to tumble until VR
becomes de rigueur for all self-
respecting home computer fanatici -
and not just the game players!

What are the chances of Division-
style VR on the Amiga? 'Tou can
actually attach our box to the Amiga,
and use the Amiga joystick to control
things,'' said Steve.

Show launch for
scanner and rodent

A NEW scanning package for the
Amiga, and a new mouse whkh can

be used with the Amiga or Atari STs,
were launched at the show by
Pandaal Marketing Ltd (0254
aS5666),

The DAATAscan Pro complete
graphite scannir^ package features >

Aifilgfl Computing 13

WHAT'S

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contrast control, real-time canning
display, zoom and pixel perf«l edit-
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rotate, flip and invert Images and full
printer support.

The DMTAscan supports the IFF
file formatj. and I
h available now
at an RRP oM
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AMOS gets turbo
charged

THE AMOS Compiler - the turbo
booster for the 40,00{)-5elling AMOS
write-your-own-gannes program -
was the bfcg news from Europress
Software, the new name for
Database Software as of May 1 .

Eyropress said the Compiler
would be on sale from May, and
would more than dcHjble the speed
of AMOS programs. Some com-
mands a:fe seven times faster once
compiled. Europress were also plug-
ging AMOS 3D, which allows Amiga.
owners to create 3D objects and
manipulate them in real-time, ideal
for creatirrg games like Starglider and
Inter-phase. And the next phase^
of the Fun School education-
al series for children, Fun
School 4, is well under
way and ihould be
launched in the
autumn. It

Devehpmenl team:
Chris Poyr}^ (lightl Rk
Vanner (ietll and Peier Lee
(top right}

will be sold alongside Fun Schools Z
and 3^ and wiil offer six further pro-
grams across three age groups, all in
tine with National Cumculum guide-
Bnes. The fun School series accounts
for a staggering 79.6 per cent of ali
educational software sold by com-
puter retailers according to indepen-
dent market research commissioned
by Europress Software. Managing
director Chris Payne said more than
a quarter of a million Fun Schools
had been sold and dealers were con-
vinced the range would continue to
sell for year3 to come.

Contriving to cover
Europe

CONTRIVER Europe Limited chose
the occasion of the ECTS to
announce that it is poised to launch
its European distribution network,

The firm's products, which are
made m Taiwan., include a wide
range of mice, joysticks, disk boxes,
mouse pads, printer stands and
other accessones. Managing
director Adolfo Ciannini
said Contriver's inten-
tion was to continue
its compeEitive
pricing policy
whife maintaining
the highest possible
standardi.The company
was busy evaluating potential
istributors for the contriver
range throughout the whole of
Europe.

Amiga Computing goes Euro ^Ji^^J^

Amiga Completing, launched by Database Publications in i98S and which last year
moved to Interactive Publishing^ is now to come under the banner of Europress
Publicatior^s Limited. This, is a result of the restructurmg of all companies within
the Europress Group.

The magazine has been managed by Interactive Publiishing, for the last four-
teen months. Interactive was formed as the result of a historic deal between
Collner Publishing and Database Publications. Now all magazines published by
ttie group will be united under one name. Chairman Derek Meakin, who founded
the gn>up 21 year^ ago, said: 'W\lh the creation of new subsidiaries in recent
years, all with different names, there was a growing danger of the parent group
losing its identity. From now on all companies f arming part of the group will
appear under the Europress banner"". Richard Williams has been appointed pub-
lisher, with responsibiiity for botJi Amiga Computing and Aiori iJ U$er. Thie Amiga
Campiiting editorial line-yp comprises Eddie McKendrick (Features Editor J with
Stevie Kennedy (Technical Editor) and Paul Austin (Deputy Features Editor). The
art department is headed up by Mike Bailey (Art Editor),

Behmd the scenes, key Amiga CompuUng personnel are |ane Conway (Sales
and Marketing Manager), Tracy Carroll (Advertlsment Manager), Simon lees
(AdvertSsment Sates)^ |ohn Burns (Circulation Director) and David Wren
(Circulation Manage r), Richard Will lams said^ "With a new company structure
and more staff we are in an kieal position to make Amigo Compulmg even better
value in terms of editorial content and free disk programs. It will also boost our
already great advertising power." Europress Pubiiications aho produce PC Jodoy,
The Micro User and Let^ Compute! Other companies within the Europress Croup
include Europress Interactive (AmigQ Action, ST Act'toTj^ Gomes-X), Europress
Software (Formerly Database Software h Maridarin Software) and Europress
Trade Publications (piibEishers of Computer Trade We^kty).

Michaei Meakin becomes Managing Director of the group's holding company,
Europreis Ltd, with Tim Roberts promoted to group financial controller Rkhard Wiiftami

Derek Meakirj

walk it in
leisure awards

AN alternative name for the
European Computer Leisure
Awards, awarded and presented
during the ECTS show, might we^
be the Psygnosts awands, jud^ng by
the number of honours picked up
by the games manufacturer already
on a high whth the runaway (no
pyn intended} Success ot.
L^mrrijngs.

Psy gnosis picked up the pnM
for Computer Game of the Yea)
{Lemmings), Most Origrnaf Cami
(Lemmings), Best Craphia
(Shadow of the Beait 11), BesI
Sound (Shadow of the least (1),
and a) so took the Softw'ari
Pubhsher of the Vear prize. i

Anyone who is wonderinj
whither Lemmings deserves iti
success sfiould have seen how visi-
tors who had net seen It before
were immediately captivated on
visiting the Pjy gnosis bospita!!^
suite and getting s<3me hands-on
experience of trying to lead the lit-
tle lemmi out of peril.

The ^'biggie" award from th*;
point of view of Amigaphiles wat=
obviously the one for Home
Computer of the Year, won by
Commcjdore for what ehe but the
Anrvigal

Commodore also vvon the
Multimedia Package of the Year
title for Amiga Vision.

Other awards wirt:
Best Animation - Dragon's Lair II
(by Ready Soft Inc); Best Attipn.
Came - Turrican (Rainbow Arts}]|
Best Adventure/Role Playing Came

- The Secret of Monkey Island-
(LucasFitm}^ iest Mind Came ^
Ktax (Domark): Best Packaging -
Ultiraa VI (Origin); Best SI-mulat«ofi|

- f-19 Steaith Fightel
{Microprose); CDnsole Game of the
Year - Tetrls (Nintendo). 1

In the Non-games/TechnicaP
Excellence Categories, besides the
two Commodore successes, av^ardt ;
were: i \

Best Art Pad^age - Delude Painl
III (Electronic Arts); 8 est Musi|
Package - Bars and i^ipes (Blu^
Ribbon Sound works); 8est Hoi
Eduction Package - Fun School
(Europress Software); Best Hoi
Productivity Package, Mlcrosd
Works (Microsoft); Most Innovati
Perlpheril - Video Toast
(Mewtek); Multimedia Packige
the Year - Amiga Vision
(Commodore).

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most of its space
to PCs, it was....

Afar
from

it-CeBIT-sy event
for the Amiga

Donald Maple mit der news und der
views from CeBIT '91 in Hanover

Here we go againl In case you don't know it, the sprmgtime CeBIT
show held in Hanover, West Cemiany, ii the largest computer exhibition
in the world. More than 4,500 exhibitors from 41 countries, spread over
som« 20 halls covering nearly 300,000 square metres, showed their wares to a
crowd of around 600,000 visitors, The exhibition grounds are so big that, in addition
to lU own train station, CeBJT provides a free bus servfce for visitor* and a free taxi service
for lournos. Impressed? (Yeah - sounds aimost as good as Birmingham's NEC! - Ed),
Commodore Is very popular in Germany so it's no surprise to learn that it has always been w«ll repre-
sented here, "^

WHAT'S

PRESS HERE! 1

COINCIDING with the 20th anr^iver-
sary of Cominod(>r& Cermany - t^^ei
pareni comp^ will cHrtifflte 30 year^;
m two yeari iim^ - Commodore^
intefnatiofial mn\^\ press hrfefhg ^s'
a imy pf ofessiona! affair.

^'This press conferefice preseniatioi
was cneated usirg the Amiga 3000 50
you can see what [Jhis pnoduct can do
in r«al fife/ s^W Helmut (ost, the r^w
bgss erf Commoftone Gefmany,

He WIS joifted by Irving CoyUt flie
chairman {jff the boaFd and chief exec-
utive officer of Comnnodore in tfie U.S.
Biit before we get to mealy stirff, a
f«w figures. Commodore continues to
show heatU>y growth and, compared
to last year, the most recent %ln
months' sales ittcreased by 23 per cent
^^ and net profks jumped NINEfoJd to
I J44 minkm. But the best f inandal oewi
I Is that wilh more thao SO pei cent the
.Amiga cofitmues to dominate.
I Europe ^ill accounts for 85 pef c^t
for totaf sales and Gennany is agam Ihe
|sing)e lar^esl world market.

Because of this Commodore is
buildfng a new factory in
Braunschweig, C«rmany - all
Commodore machines sold in Europe
are already manirfactufe^f Ehene.

The CM h stHI selling wdl in spite

of it being declared dead five years

ago. In Germany afone C64 sales

jumped from 1 08,1300 to 180,000

mainfy due to East Germany.

.. And the icing on the cake fs that

^.ifter reaching the 1,000,000 marfc in

;"lhe spfing of fast year Commodore

uold its 2,0OT,OOOth Amiga

pkwemibeF.

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Show highlights

OK FOLKS^ you waited tong enough.

The big news, of course, is the
European premiere of COTV which,
contrary to popuFar misconception,
actually stands for '"Commodore
Dynamic Total Vision".

CDTV is basically a 1 Mb keyboarcT-
fess Amiga with a CD-ROM drive and
remote control,

Known internally within
Commodore as "the baby" it will
start shipping to sefected markjets in
the US. and Europe this spring.
CDTV W3S to be available in
Germany in May at DM ISQQ (just
over £500).

COTV is not TV for mat specific

aind can be used with both PAi and
NTSC.

A "smart card'' h used
for storage so when
the machine i^ gW% O
turned off the
settings are
retained .
CDTV can also
play ''regular"
audio CDs. ^l

"From the ,
moment you "^
turn it on and
insert a CDTV disk
you are involved immedi
ately in the content of the appli
cation, not in operating the
machine;" said Irvmg Could.

He continued: ''Some of the
world's leading software and refer-
ence companies including
Cuinnes5, Lucasfiim,
C Disney and the biig
Iwmiit European soft-
ware houses are
worsting on
CDTV titles."

The reference

titles include

among others

World Vista Atlas,

the fully illustrated

Groliier tncyciopedia

and the King James Bible.

CDTV is also ideal for high quality

arcade games and entercafnment

tities. iecause CDTV delivers music,

vkteo, text, graphics animation and

interactfvity rts appliication is virtually
unlimited,

A few examples are muitlmedia
tourseware, libraries, point of sales
presentations, product demonstra-
tions and sEaff training.

Vtfhile CDTV is ^multimedia for
the maMej", Amiga 3000 is high e-nd
multimedia, However, the latter has
aJso got some new clothes.

Namely, Commo-dore fs branch-
ing out into Unix with the "Amiga
3000 Tower*' envisaged as a ijni?t
server and the "Amiga 3000 UX''
which runs the latest AT&T Unix
System 5 Refease 4.

The Tower Amiga has five 32-bit
and three 1 6-brt slots. >

1 1

Aifirga Computfng 17

WHAT'S

VThe mother-
board diso has d
200-pin CPU slot. In
contrast to the Amiga 3000,
the Tofwer has the four Zorro III slots
on the motherbodircl and not on a
separate ard. The \^deo ^stem has

its own slot called VDE - Video

Display Enhanter. A SCSI port is aUo
included on the motherboard.

The heart of the machine is a 25-
hAhi 68030 assisted by a 68882
floating point coprocessor, 3Mb of
RAM comes as standard of which
2Mb is fast RAM.

Using 4 Mbit chips thij can be

brought up to 1 8Mb. The machine is
supplied with either a 100Mb or
200Mb bard disk wifri acce^^ Ume of
19 mi

The graphic resolutions range
from 320x256 to 1280x512 and are
backward compatible with all four
previous Amiga modes,

A ''flicker fjxer^ chip comes as stan-
dard. On the software side the Tower
is delivered with "Amiga -Vis ion"
authofing system and the Unii veraion
can communicate with other
machines via an ELhemet card.

For DOS masochists among you
Commo-dore also introduced its
fourth generation of machines which
to date this year include nine new Ks
such as slim-line, notebooks, desktop
and towers featuring 2&6, 386 and
486 processors.

Hands on...

Now that we're all charged up Jefs
lay our gmbby little hands on sorme
real hardware. The Commodore
booth was composed of three
standi: a tiny home computing
itand, an Amiga stand and a PC
stand.

The professional focus w^ dearty

reflected in how the total area was
dfvided.

The PC ^re^ was twice ^ iarge as
the other two combmed! tn spite of
this division being the same as last
year i^t neverthdiess Seems contradic-
tory to Commodore's statements
that the Amiga is the main platfonn
and that it outsells the PCs by a largie
margin. In contrast to last year's
"wall of multimedia video'' the
Amiga stand this year was dominat-

ed by a ''wall of CDTV" - a room size
multj-5cteen display running CDTV
demos. Oh yeah, the stand also con-
tained a car. A what? No, really I A
regular siie car whose controls were
connected to an Amiga and used in
a competition.

The competitors then "drow" the
car arKl watched the monitor on the
wall in front through the windshield.
OK, U may not he virtual reality
exactly but it comes ctase...

Let s party with Third Party!

""Delta Base ; distributed by Delta
Konzept at 01 049^21 598 100 7
(that's Germany you're calling so,
don^t make that call too long nowl),
Is a multidimensional data base
written by Chris M, Muehch, The
program h very sophisticated ^nd
after setting the initial parameters
doesn't require the user to set the
field defmitions.

In addition to supporting multi-
ple users, Del^ta-Base has one or
more Supervisors who are responsi-
ble for setdng the parameters and
structures and manage user access-
Ddta-Base njns or^ both the AmȤa
and the PC and is looking for a djs-
tfibulor in the UK so call Germany
on 01049-711-3454285 if you wish
to become one.

V1deoH:amp, responsible for the
aforementioned "wair of video last
year, are wel[ known here for
endowirrg Amigas witti Transputers
and irtterfaclng them with high-end
professional video hardware.

This year saw the introduction of
DVE-10, an all-in-one devke com-
bining digital effects, a video pro-
cessor, audio and video mixers, a
fast digitiser and a Genlock inter-
face,

Merkens EOV introduced *^D
200r, a 24 -bit real time digitizer
and frame buffer. Originally deveS-
oped in Austria the device sports a^_

pEethora of features such as ARexx
support^ works with a number of
picture formats, overscan, mask
editing, brush handliing, picture
blow-up and reduction.

The pric€ in Germany Is DM
3998 (about £1,500). Mefkens is at
01049^619* 3026 while the UK dis-
tributor is C2.

"MXM -Chart" from MXM is a
stock exchange analysis program. In
addition to fast processing of data
and creation of various graphs the
program can also direcdy grab data
from Videotext (the German equiva-
lent of Teletext). The program ver-
sion 1 .00 lists for DM 34? (about
125 pour^ds). For more info calt
01 049-51 1 -446376 (that s Germany
again).

"Funlab'" - a joint effort by
Commodore, Kawai and Steinberg -
is a complete MIDI system incoqso-
rating bqth hardware and software.
Introduced here tait year, Kawai
supplies the 6Ukey synthesiier
which is actually an FS-680 with a
few additional interfacmg features.

The 13 -note polyphonic synth
cofTics with 1 00 presets (five soft-
ware modifiable)^ an on-bo^rd
sequencer and a built-in rhythm
machine with 100 different pat-
terns.

Steinberg custom wrote the soft-
ware which is Funiab specific and

Will only wort? with this syniheiizer.
The main feature of the pacicage Is
"one finger ad Hb*'^ where the user
selects the rhythm, presses one key
and the synth does the rest.
The -rhythm lelection determines
the notes in the automaticaEly creat-
ed ttine b<Jt these notes can aiso be
defined by the user.

Funiab also sports a disk based
"juke-box". New this year are more
"^ juke- box* disks, each with up to
10 songs and inctuding written
notation.

Maxon demonstrated their
'^Maxon-CW program with a spe-
cial Turbo-versFon for the Amiga
3000, The prices are DM 249
(about 90 pounds) and SM 449
(about 160 pounds) respectively.
Both versions support the CRP
graphic tablet and work in resob-

tionsfrflm 640x256 to 1024x^008

Maxon will answer your cai*! at
01049^6196^81811 (Germany).

FEET Computer (yup, that's
what they're called!) offer a com-
plete digitizing solution for all
Amiga models. ARISTOTAB, devel-
oped by ARISTO^ is the digitizer
whiJe FEET Computer wrote the
driver which controls the mouse
and does scaling and rotation as
well.

Use your haruls and call FtET at
01 049^0-7427081 (Germany).

Einar Kretzler demonstrated
three products: Video- imaging for
architectural landscape simulations
in CAD images, 3D -Simulation For
creation of realistic models and
Vldeo-Presefltation.

Call 01049^51 MHZ (Germany)
for more info.

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The dirt on the domain

I The worid cxf PtJiblk; DQmain ha^ been gradually gaining a repuLatJon not
■ tcH3 des^iitillar to th^i of a us^d car iale^men.

Ves, ( know I'll receive hyndreds of irate letters from furious used tar
salearnin threatening SitigaHon fcr being campared with a bL>:sin^& ^ith ^
h ds notoriously dodgy as PD, but neverthel^s li mijst be said-

The probleins with the PubJiC Domairh usually arrive v^ith the fly by
'flight elements Lhat let up overnight and go bust alrnosl as quickly, liiv-
irg punters In the dark and invana Wy out of pocket

The on^y real way to avord the Arthur Daily etement h to check out
tti&ir ads in respectable magazines ar^d make sure they're well put togeth-
.ir. tf possfble check a few back issu«5 to se* if they regulady appear in the
advertisers' index.

software. A good ej^ampfe of the
speed and scale of development is
provicied by one of Britain's bigger
libraries, Wakefield based T 7-Bit soft-
ware.

Back in February 1 988 they boast-
ed a library of 40 disks. Now they
are approaching the 1,500 disk
mark. Things haven't stabilised yet,
the library is still growing at an
impresstve rate.

Looking at 17-Sil now, it is diffi-
cult to retain perspective and keep
sight of the original PD ideals.

The organisation occupies its own
offices with five staff looking after the
needs of over 19,000 members.
There is no disputing lhat Public
Domain has developed from more

than a back bedroom pursuit. More
and more people, perhaps dissatis-
fied with existing PD sources, are

opting to set up their own PD
libraries. Some do it for fun, ottier s
aim to make their fortune from sell-
ing other peopie's voluntary efforts.

Martyri Brown has been in PD for
over three years. Known to his
friends as 'Spadge', he is on-e of the
most influential pjayer^ on the PD
circuit. He is reflective on the UK
Public Ooffiain scene, hankering
back to the early days when die flop-
pier were few iiut the quafity was
high.

""Our moit popular sellers in the
early days v^re utility disks, Sonix
tunes and the Walker demos/ he
relates, pointing illustratively at a 17-
bfi PD catalogue on the table. So

what sells now? Martyn reveafs with-
out hesitatiort: ""It is all sampled sttrff
now, graphiics and sound."

No productivity software?

Martyn bitaks the silence pensive-
ly i "No^ not reailyr it is or>e of the
weak spots with Amiga PD. We do
some utility packs but there is hardly
anything in the way of decent seri-
ous software."

What we now have is a Public
Domain software base awash with
demos , innumerable disk utilities
and workbench hacks, but few useful
programs. This is quite a contrast to
the PD scene of a few ye$n ago,

Free PD?

PD libraries charge anything from
SOp to £5 for disks. As previously dis- >

PD the legal language

for liie average newcomer the almo^ endless variety of legal variations
berheath the umbrella of the Public domain can make the baskalSy liberal
philosophy of the business seem very confused.
To help clear the waters here's a brief guWe ^ to what it aJI means

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Another daisJc demo

War and PD \

As you've no doubt notiiced there seems to be something of a \
range war in progress with various factions cutting prices li-ke \
throats and rustling software faster than a cowboy ^itfi an insa- \
tiabte- desire to poke other people's critters.

This cut throat mocd is not solely the fault of the small opera- ■
tors but in fact quite the reverse. The large libraries use theif /^^
fonnidable market position to corner various new reteases with V
Licenceware agreements which vary in detail but invariably result in ^
the software being tied temporarily or permanently to the Htifary in
question.

As a result, whafs left For the rest becomes very hot prop-
erty and of course that's when the blood starts to flow. ^^i^ |^^^ ^^ ^|

PD/Freeware

With this format you're not obliged to send anything to anyone,
whole thing is totally free. The only restriction is that the software is not

sold commercially and if it's distributed to anyone the cost of the dislts is
not meant to exceed the amount required for duplication, packaging and
postage.

Shareware

This is by far the most popular format. The idea is to allow you to sample
the software and if you then use it on a regular basis you're legally bound
to pay a nominal amount to the author.

This will usually have the added effect of making you a registered user,
which generally means technical support and access to the latest
upgrades.

Licenceware

fn most cases this distmction only real^y applies to PD libraries by restrict-
ing distribution to the library with the particular software franchise in
questtan.

As far as we the punters are concerned the software itself is usually
Shareware with an occasional exception and should tae treated
accordingly.

Beerware ^

This is i splendidly silly alternative which callj for the donation of
a siK pack of beer to the alcoholic aythor. Of course if the beer
monster in quest>on lives in Lapland it coyld be a lot cheaper
to send a cheque and a bottte opener.

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Charityware

This is a r^re but highly commendable variation on the
theme. As you've no doubt guessed if you become addicted
to the program in question you're required to send a donation
to the charity of either your or the author's choice.

If your conscience can stand this particular poke in
the eye and you still don't donate you've got to be
mpsflfi can be classed as a very sad character |t

in th« PD

Amiga Computing 23

Cover
Featur

Paying ™

There is an easy at^ernative to the
tangled web of licence agree-
rnersts: simply cough yp the cash
and make the dcnailon like
ymi're supposed to.

Thi5 iin't quite as JUfreal as it
seems. There are some deFEnite
advantages to becoming a regis-
tered user, Perhaps the biggest
bortus is access to updates as
soon as they're avajjable, not to
mention the technical support the
author will be more than happy
to supply to his new found friend.

Another twist in the ta!e
employed by rn^ny a wtiey author
Is to only supply partial version i
of their software for release within
the PD.

Only wherk you do the decent
thing and cough up the cash wHI
you receive the full-blown all
singing, all dancing version of the
software complete with extra
disks or occasionally even various
hardware add-ons which will
allow full use of the software in
question.

An alternative method of
encourigement relies on the
need for a manual which the
author will happily trade for the
appropriate cash incentive- Both
these methods ^re becorning
incfeasifigly popular.

The only downside for the par-
tially complete approich is the
potential for free advertising that
has already been spotted by a
good fpw co-mmercia! companies.

Occasionally it can be really
useful 10 get some hands-on
experience of expensive commer-
cial packages before you hand
over your hard earned cash, but
more often than not the PD alter-
natives are jusl advertisements for
the nepct nmja mutant bJasl-'em-
up.

24 Afnign Computing

cussed, the actual software
is Free, so where does the
money go? Again, Martyn Brown-
can offer an insight: ''We charge
£1.50 for our disks and all we really
do is cover our costs,""

Some of the cost can be directly
accounted for: 35p on postage and
packing, ^Op on- duplicatipn and 5p
on literature. These factors combined
account for 50% of the cost.

That may look 35 if it leaves 70p
profit on each disk but there is quite
a lot to read between the lines.

From thai remaining 70p, the
library has to pay for lighting, heat-
ing^ telephone!, five staff and a
whole range of other day-to-day
costs.

Add to that the production of Ihe
"'Update'' disk magazine which is
sold for only £1 an issue and the cost
of advertising in magazines.

With these factors combined you
won't get much change from
ffiOrOOO each year. The bottom line
is, in order to cover costi 1 7-6it have
to sell 85,715 disiks annually,

To assist in the duplication pro-
cess, 17-flrt have a professional dupli-
cator capable of chucking out
copied, verified disks at the rate of
1 28 an hour.

So if you have a bedroom big
enough and you really do enjoy lick-
ing stamps there is nothi^ng to slop
you setting up a tibrary. Don't under-
estimate the sheer volume of effort
requfred though.

Direct Connection

it is possible to get your hands on PD
software without payfng a library for
it. Hundreds of Bulletin Boards exist
up and down the country providing
literally thousands gf PO programs
for a wide variety of machines. Up
until ^ ^ear or so ago, the Amfga was
the poor relation online, but we are
catching up fast. Most BB's don't

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Have you paid your licence

The Licence ware arrangement is something of a mixed blessJng. It actyafly
contravenes the spirit of PD in the eyes of most aficionados by restricting
the socialist ideals of the PO concept.

The trouble with such high tdeals is that they are seldom lived up to
and as a result the poor forgotten ^uls who created ihe software rafdy
receive the reward they so richly deserve.

The rewards should come in the forrr* of Shareware donations from the
hoards of punters who regularly make use of the authors^ hard work,
Unfortunately this very seldom happens and as a result llcenceware releas-
es are destined to dominate PD in the not to distant future.

The varkius fonns of PD agreement are explained elsewhere in the arti-
cle but nevertheless it's worth remembering that the vast majority of
releases are Shareware which leaves you legally bound to contribute to 1
the coffefs of the author if and when you become a regular user of the "
software.

in the eyes of many an author the llcenceware approach is an ideal
answer to the problem of non payment When a product fs licenced to a
particular library the author Immediately receives a payment for his
labouT^.

At this pcKint the software doesn't usually become copyright materiaf in
the normal sense, but it does mean it can't be legally distributed by
another library. Nevertheless it can usually still be given away, something
which the average PD library i$ hr from keen on,

Evien though the authors do receive some cash from the llbrar/ wh]ch
will be distributing their latest releases^ it's by no means eriough to retire
or^. A* a re^lt there's no reason why a Shartw^he contribution couWnl
be made to encourage the authors on to their next m Inor masterpiece.

There is a variation on this theme which makes the licencewafe ton-
tract valid for a limited period. This is perhaps the best of both worlds,
allowing the author to see some return, the library to make some proftt
which of course they donate to charity, and lastly for the spirit of PD
which can fully embrace the software after the licence period expires. j

The old guard may vvell be completely died in the wool as far as PO
princfpais are concerned but with the new mood in the market these high
ideals are no longer enough to mamtair^ the standard of software which "
the average complacent punter has come to ejtpect.

charge for downloading software,
hut they usually estpect something
uploaded in return.

This principal works well, ertsur-
ing that there is always a fresh
supply ol soltwafe avaiiabie to down-
load.

It h important to bear in mind
that depending on where the bul-

letin board is^ how fast your modem
can go and how big the program
you are downloading is, it could well
tte cheaper to buy the software from
a iibrary.

tf you are determined to spread
PD to the masses, it might be worth
taking the plunge and setting up
your own Bulletin Board- This isn't as

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Cuft theiviei iflK 'itftf Treic' form «fi
Important p^rt of the PO Keoe

► cheap as it might sound either

though.

firstly you will need a feiriy meaty
Amigj, a fast modenn arKf masse? of
storage spice. Next ycu wifl h^ve to
get a phone line and pay the quar-
terty nentaf.

You will not be able to hold an
impressive range of softwiare for
download on a single fbppy Amiga
500. You really need a hard disk to
do a- board justice, even then ft coy Id
te a struggle.

As of January thii year, the Fred
Fish library coniiited of 530
megabytes of data spread over
46,000 separate NIes.

N you realiy do have more money
and enthusiasin than sense, you
would do wefl to consider a CD ROM
drive. The Fish coHection h avaflafaJe
on a single CD for J69. 95.

The politics

The Public Domain sector seems to
have changed quite dramatically
over Ehe years. Something whfch
owes its success to a gfoup of enlhu-

sJasts workmg together to promote a
machine has turned into a much
Jnore commercial beast.

As the collection of avaflable soft-
ware grows, (t is obvious that the
number of distribytion outlets and
methods will increase. At the end of
the day it is down to ?ub\k Domain
users to keep the industry in check.
Any library which starts soleJy for
profit does not deserve to survive,
nor will it with the fierce competition

All chanye

A quick glance at any author's income, or to be mote accurate the
Jack of it, is enough to make anyone understand the disllfusioomenl
Nwhkh drfves the talented to the tempting allure of iiceficeware and
poisibfy on to do the ynthir>kable.

^ Yei there's an even darker side to the business which Is begin-
nfng to appear due to the apathy of the punters. This is the recent
move by the author? of software 5uch as the massively popular
PowerPacker series to release their latest vec^fo^s in the commefcial
sector in a final desperate attempt to make floppies meet.

This ii almost ^n inevitable move whkh is bntjught about solely
through a lack of support, within the PD, As I mentioned earfief the
complacency regarding quality releases never fails to amaze me.

PowerPacker is a fine example. When Ft was in the PO most peo>
pie never considered posting a Shareware donation but r^everthe-
tess these same souls were more than happy to cough up the £7,99
to buy it commercpaliy. PerceivabJe value is a strange beast,..

in today's scene. Martyn Brown
wryfy recalls the early days: ''We
vvoufd put a Jot of effort into compil-
ing disks oniy to find another library
copying them and sellfng them for
£1 cheaper."

The whole point or Public Domain

is that it can be freely distributed so
things ail come back to enthusiasm
and effort. Martyn is not bitter about
the re-dfstrFbution of software From
I7^8it's library.

He acknowledges that the prac-
yce can't really be descrfbed as pra->.

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often. <(ii^blne to produce uieltii,
rf cnUrtainlnci demo's

Hit seductive face of PMh Dvnr\3iin

Fred Fish

If you look at almost any PD cgJumn, sooner o. later safe to say that you're dealing wrth a professional
the name Fred Fish is bound to make an appeararwe, fit

The Fred Fish or "Fish drsk^ coHectldn is the biggest
and best in the business.

Good old Fred has been banging out the goods
since 1985 and as a result it's become the definitive
CQltettion which covers literariy everything to do with
PO on the Amiga.

Fred's latest wares are a very hot item in the PD
world and the best bits soon find themselves in almost
every library in the business. It a library boasts a com-
plete and current collection of Fred s disks iV$ usually

ffial ouP^

_ _S 2<n^-inzXi

r-g%iggw5;£fr-s\w^?gw;g^g

At the last count Fred's coflectSon came in at around
the 4€0 mart so that's the sort of figure you should be
tacking for. The collection was initially comppfed from
sources mostly within the stat^ but as it s grown it's
attracted contributors world wide.

The onjy real problem wfth Fred's immense colfec-
tpon is Pt5 sire and variety, so if you>e after specific
items a copy of Aquarium Jj essential. This Is the
database which gives a gyide to the entire collection
and should take you straight to what's required.

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Back room^

with the business being 99 per
cent mail order, the temptation to
set up a cotJ^pie of drives in a back
bedroom and dodge Ehe inquisi-
tive eye of the tax man is almost
too much to bear for many an
acne ridden entrepreneur.

This often ends in sorne very
dodgy operators and virus ridden
resuits that can cause misery to
nftiilions of defenceless files.
Because of the small scale and finv
; ited irccess to new material most
oF the software on offer is usually
far from new and often leis than
complete.

A common marketing pJoy is to
be extremely selective when con-
structing the disks. For example a
couple of ysefu) utils or the odd
game may be added and then
heavfly featured in the ads but the
rest of the disk is invariably com-
plete rubbish, merely added to
make up the numbers, -_

Amiga Cumputlng 27

Cover
[Feature

Mors ef thit ever popular PD puriult, rjLy-trac«l art

> cy b€C3use there h no copyright on
the SQftware to start with.

If you ire looking Kq buy PD soft-
ware, the message is lo shop around.
A casual flick through this issue of
Amiga Computing will reveal a myriad
suppliers eager to provide you with
their wares.

See a specialist

Libraries tend lo specialise these day§
in order to cultivate a particular area
of the market As Martyn ackhOwi-
edged, 1 7-Bit is perhaps not the best
place to find productivity software,
but rf \i is utilities and entertainment
software you are after, the choice is
endless.

Most iibraries produce catabgye
disks, or hard-copy lists. It makes
sense to scan the^e carefuiiy before
commlttrng to buying a lot of disks
for oniy ^ few bits aind bobs of soft-
ware.

Often yoy can find the same pro-
grams you require, packaged up on
fewer disks within a difterent library.

The range and ctepth of software
availabie is evident within the pages
of AmigQ Computing each and every
m&nth.

Our Public Domain column aims
to provide the latest gen on pro-
grams that are unique^ cif speciai
merit or just plain indispensable.

To make the most of your Amiga,
you really should make the most of
Public Domain,

The new movement

if it's quality rather than quantity
you're after take a look at some of
the iong established libraries which
produce compililion collections of
the best software in any specific area.

28 Amlgi Cofiipytlng

These are combined to form the

definitive PD oolieictions in each par-
ticular field. They can vary from
games^ utilities, home management,
dip art and soon.

If you've not yet deived into the
domain this is an excel^lent entry

point for your fint investments. Ofn
paper it can sometimes appear a
rather expensive aitematiwe to singie
disks priced at 99 p. but it^s worth
remembering tfiat there's very littie
wasted space and of course you're
5ure that the contents wiii be f^eiev
vant to your nequirements.

The plastic press

Another aspect of the domain not
yet mei^tioned is the ever ej^panding
market for disk-based magazines. If
you're not familiar with the medium
a brief explanation is in order.

These disks are usualiy monthiy
offerings which are either released
through the individuai iibraries in a
similar format to the licenceware
arrangement applied to PD software
or are written and reieased by the
larger libraries themselves.

These are then either bought sep-
arately or sent to registered sub-
scribers in a newsietter formal.

If it's literary quaiity and n-ew5

Why do they do it?

Even if you prefer a poke in the eye to the average scrolly demo you can't

fait to be impressed with the incredibiy clever coding which goes in to prch
ducing these amazing combinations of gr^phia and sound.

i'm far from a fan of the average scroll routine but t must admit the
quality of the coding never fails to impress.

The obvious guestion is, why aren't these guys and gais making a for-
tune wrifting the neist software smash?

Weli, quite simply that's exactly what they Intend to do and a jaw drop-
ping denrK) is just the thing to attract the attenifon of the software houses.
Many a scrolly demo expert has moved on to codmg classics for the cohtk
nwrciai sector.

It'5 not only coders who benefit from the demo scene, if you're looking
to bfeak into the serious side of Amiga music, pining a coding team may
well be a route to fame and, iif you get noticed, perhaps even a bat of for-
tune.

Private
collections

Afong with the PD monsfefs whkh

ore distubuted lo a// such os fred'i
th^fe Qfe (? number of coHeclicm
which Hfi exdusfv^iy dinributed
tfy indmduoi fibrari^i.

Au example of thh wouki hi Ihi
TbQg ^QlkcUon refioiid ihrough
the Amiganuts United, it's a
monthly offering that tak^i Ibe
pidi of the PD from ihe ^late^ and
combines il mlo o siflgte, exirefm-
Sy il)^kh diiii. /f 's worth enquiring
with larger libraries about s/mfto
dmis they moy ho^e $tru€k wllh
other coltectroni-

you're after it's probably best to go
for the independent releases. Asi^de
from the quality of the contributors
there's the added advantage which
the international input lends to the
magazine.

As a consequence of their Email
upbringing they tend to provide the
latest stones, software, rtews and
reviews from literally all around the
world.

Of course one of the main selHng
points of most plastic mags is the
weird and wonderful collection of
software bundled with every issue. It
tends to be something of a mixed
bag but in general the quality is high
and of course bang up to date.

If you check out the Public
Domain sectron in this issue you'll
find a guide to the alternatives which
shpiJid point you in the right direc-
tion towards the best in the plastic
press.

Helping hands

Another commendable talent of the
PD h its ability to throw a lifeline to
those poor souii who are stranded^
lost and alone with their consuming
passion for some sort of bizarre
Ainiga application.

if you're one of these poor unfor-
tunates try contacting one of the
larger iibraries and they should be
able to put you in touch with various
clubs that deal with everything from
fractals to C programming.

Most of these clubs release
monthly newsletters full of hints, tips
and reviews which cover everything
to do with their particular passion, s^
even the keenest enthusiast should
be kepi happy For hours, months or
even years.

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Comita^b Fantasy I
ComUMh Fantasy II

Viz Sdde Show
Agmron Re/Iecfio?is
Sun Connection
Gaiams Gate

Turfx^ Sik^'r Mask;
Mk Williunis Brtkifkmt

iieaithyll

Walkers
KuH (Pen)
Kuighf n
Kotati?i}{ Ship
Shark
Gymtiast
Walker I
JeiF15
Roho

MEG

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Italia Cinema
Congaman
Sboivhiz
BiUlBird
BiliyTheKid
W Comniercuils
Batfnan

2 MEG

VaiLxkiller f2j

I SMiun at Khi^iie (3)
losi In Sa0e (3)

1V2MEG

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Sentinel (2)

C Light
CUghtArtlm

AntiFlicI^
Vinis 4. 1
Dtsksah' 1.42
£SA tmties
FuliForcelll
Ghostwriter

Copiers I
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BootbkKks (2)

Vi^eo Progs {2j
Graphics AJps f2/
Annga/Atarf GFX
Convertors
Enetvy UtilUies
SID VIM
Aardmrk l^ilities
Aiandie Generator
Archiv{t [Hih
ART IJImtaller
North Sea (1)
CMmmtlaj
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PC Chess

Hreakuiii'
Frantic Freddie
Eaimine
Drpf

Tricky

Card Games
Blizzard
Retuni 7fj Earth
Sub Cidnire Leivt 1
Kill to Free
G€Wies Gahre I
Ganies Gahn' II

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DEMOS

Kejhens 2^ega
Qfma

RtdSfx;tor(2)
Red Sector Cebit
Meuiai Han^fWer
Pti^ In Space
Umiwsail^TlI
Demob I
Deint.tb II
Vtmn Music
IrTiJOH Megadi^o IV
l^ice Workbeficb
Vi^ftgdis*
Neu^iekr2ED)
i\'eti^iekIfl(*2ED)
Sciefice 4.51
XarthStarf2)
Dexion M^ademo
Highclass fUK)
Rehtk Megademo
Amazing Denies W
ESi Demos
Plmtmetia Me^etno
Comiflex BcSs
Puki/jers

Hardcrack GFX
JCS'Shellshock
Aicatraz Demo
SccKjpex Demos
Triaf^ Demos
Tetri^n Megademm
Deathiifarp I
Maxitmm Onenihife f2}
Cave Mega Demo It
Angels Ihe Ponfer
Amaze Final

Absolutiom
Crtonics Total
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Horizon Steeping Ba,if
Kefnm The Wall
Panic ViectorBird^
Swapions Tera
Zing Art ofZiftg
Vertigo Mil em [p
Bud Brain Mega

Demo I (2)
Bud Brain II

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AMOS lyMicronian Musk

/LWQS 22 Fumchool III Demo

A^OS 31 Screen Desigfier

AMOS 33 P^rik Ctjes Ape

AM0S3SArchiiisi

AMOS 21 Word Sqium Solmr

AMOS 20ArcAnget Demo

AMOS 32 Pnigs/Cam/Fearn/Nadeem

AMOS 34 Luke Miller Music

AMOS 36A¥OS^'RAMOS L2 Updates

AMOS "iS FONTS H

AMOS52F.R.II

AMOS 53 Curtys/StavmsDemo2

AMOS 54 Amos Progs 2

AMOS 59 Super QuTz

A.\K}S62An:adia

AMOS 64 Amos Prog 3

AMOS 76 Rainhoiv Warrior

AMOS 77 Amos l^fgs 5

AMOS 81 fuke Omega f}emo 7

AVIOS 82 Juke Omega Demo 2

AMOS S3 Amos Faint

AMO^ Sj Lake Milt^ Music i

AMOS iS'5 Reuefsi'Snahs & Lad^ief:;

A}H"iS 9 7 immdie Dick

AMOS LICENCEWARE

\<orkf}ench II Look
Rayi racing
Simpled rounds
lA'mo Creator
L>jpe Intro
MQiD VL25
Rot
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Celtics Demo 2Maker

(not J.J Rotas)
Halhueen Sample (2) I
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Utopia Postcards
Candv Support I
Cando Sulktort II
Fractal FH^N

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StarTrek ^Mmellaneous Afiims *
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lAPD IX Assembler '

LAPDX The Word Factory

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Squash dem bugs!

Roll&rpede isn't a blindingly original
g^me ccincept. In fact, it's already
been done a great many times in
every way fronn the arcade console
original to budget cpmpiiations.

What'i new/ about this Implemen-
tation is that Ifs free and at ie^st as
much fun as the game thai hooked
M many ui us m the arcades back in
the eariy eighties (sound of nostalgic
music in background}.

Ah - those were the
day-si When sprites were
Sprites and greenie
basting meant just that
- no softie muSti-colour
garner in the old days!
Defender and

CalGxiQn5 wer? two
of the most popular
games around,
offering raw non
stop blasting with
none of the frills
associated with
today's games
(any more nos-
talgia and
you're fired -
Ed) but

arguably the
most addic-
tive was Cenliped^, on
whh:h OUT own Roiierpede is based.

The object of the game is to blast
as many aliens as possible before
your own inevitable demise, racking
up as many points ai possi- ,_
We in the process. To aid you
in this you have a generous
rive lives at the start of the
game, and it soon becomes
obvious why you need so many.

The game starts with a better

Arcade action to keep

your joystick jiggling

with Mattliew

Donl(in's superb

shootem-up. Kill

those creepies!

than average
Soundtracker
tune, and
offers two
screens of basic
informatfon on
the sorti of aliens
and power-up5
you can expect to
meet. After this^ a
elicit on the joystick
fire button starts you
in on the game prop-
er.

Thefii3t thing you'll
notice is that Roikrpede
is smooth and fast, ar^d
that the sound has been
very well done The spot
effects for shots and explosions do
the job withqut assaulting the
eardrums too much, and all scrolling
is entirely judder-free.

Speed is a pr^me concern in the
game. Your ship will only
move at one speed - there's
a no power-up for mobility - but
the enemy can descend on
yOMi at a frightening rate once the

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screen begins to f\\\ up with mush-
rooms.

When it encounters a vertical cor-
ridor 0^ mushrooms, the Roflerpede
will snake down at great speed, and
can sqyish the hapless
player before he can
joose off more than a

Super sample

Dk^^Qfy: Jiin^'Of'th^'Month

little while back, we received a disl^tui ol samples
which had our j^ws dropping even as we Irstened to
Ihem. Twenty Cuts, Breaks and Scratches' from Pauf
Hill (of De-6ugging the Wack, Northampton) was a disk
containing some of the best Amiga samples any of us
had ever heard, and we couldn't resist using them.

Unfortunately, It wnpyid be unfair to devote an entire
coverdisk to samples, as our non-musical re&ders would
hasten to telf you, so weVe done the next best thing
and decided to supply as many of our fevotirite$ &$
space on the disk permits.

This months youll find a 'samples' sub-directory in
the Tune-of-the-lMonth directofy, and in it yCHJil fmd sJm
superb samples. Four of these are special effects which

you could use in a tune it ycHJ rea^iy wanted to, but
which are mainly just good fun, of of use to those usfng
Wall Disney's Animation Studio and who'd like to add
SFX to their cartoons.

* The other two sampieSr however, are from Paul Hiirs
disk and are guaranteed to g ra b your attention. i|

funky Drummer and Soy^e are lengthy samples"
which you can use as a basis for a house or hip-hop
tune. If you doubt the ease witti whidi you can make
music on your Amiga, load these into last month's
coverdisk sensation, MED v3.00, and play them using
the 'U' key (this is the pitch at which they seem mc>$t
happy). You should quki^ly spot the potentiai tor using
such high quality sounds in your own compositbnSr

shot or two. The first few levels

aren't too taming M long as you can
shoot fast enough, but when the
aliens begin to manifest themselves
in forms other than the standard
RolJerpede, things can rapidly
get hairy I There are four
special ali^n types: UFOs,
Walkers, Seekers, and
Epiders.

Nefarious nasties

UFO's are easy enough to avoid.
They simply fly along the top of the
screen dropping strings of bombs
which, although not very dangerous
on their own, can detract consider-
ably from your life expectancy when
you're trying to dodge attacks from
three other directions. Shooting
them as soon as they appear is
the best way to deal with
them, and will earn
you 1500 points.

Seekers are a bit |
more of a pain. They ^

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Tune-Of-The-Moflth

OK, we said we'd bring you
something special to make up for
the lack of d Tune of the Month
last month, so we djd. In your
Tune-of-the-
Month drawer
you'll find not
one, but two,
excellent
tunes and a
directory full of top quaFity s^m-
ples into the bargain!

Rocket and Contused
'caught our attention
^because they are different
md because they utilise
'MED's sequencing capabilities
'without falling prey to its inher-
■ ent weaknesses. In qther words,
they may have been wiitten with
the afd o* a sequencer^ but they
don't sound like sequences.

It is all too ^^^y, when ysing a
tool like MED, to fall into b^d

habits and to produce music that
is repetitious and bland. WJth so
many easy ej^its provided for in
MED, the ove rwhelming tempta-
tion is to give in
and foilow along
the beaten track
(no pun intend-
ed), and juit cut
or paste the same
block of music, with a Jew varia-
tions, until it's ion 9 enough to
p^ss off as a song.

The user can't be completely
to blame, because all sequencers
encourage to a certain esttent the
sort of repetitious techniques
which are responsible for this
type of computer music."
However, when you hear songs
like the twqs we've chosen this
month, you have to admit that
there can be little excuse For lazy
composing.

Confused

Roct<e't

appear at the bottom of the screen
and Ipok something iike SCUD mis-
sile launchers. The difference
between these and real SCUDS,
Kowever, soon becomes apparent
when they home in on you with
something approaching accuracy.

i Shoot the missiles to preserve
your pesce of mind and
boost your score by 3000
m 1^ points.

n Walkers are eJ<treme!y
annoying becattse they
canl be killed. They crawl

slowly along the bottom: of the
screen, firing FTiom tim^e to time, and
force you to hop over them. As this
can often mean colliding with a pass-
ing rollerpede, Walkers are about the
most annoying aliens of all. Avoid
them until they walk oH the edge of
the screen.

Spiders at first tFm •*"

seem dangerous^ ■
but they soon *
become a welcome
sight. This is because although they
bounce around and can kill at a

power-Li-pi to ke^p

How to

Fir^t oJ all, you must make a batt-up
copy of thw coverdisk. To do thiSn tjort-
up with youf tjopy of WwkbeneN^ then
dc^ble cllcic on tlie Workbench dlik
Icorir followed b^ the Shell or CU icon.
^towtype^,

I

Of, tf y^ have an extra dUk drive, put t
blank, formatt^ diikin DHi and lypcL

nrtSKCOrrFROMDF0:TODFl:

FolliDW tt\€ on-s£r«n prOfiipts untif the
copying procedure hsi ^f\4^, the-n
put your original disk s^v^y Jn a iafe
place. Mow switch off the machine and
wail lor 30 s«<orids bebre le-bDotrng
wjtb the copy. Wait untiJ the
CoverDakl 7 kon «f3fiearx double clkk
on it and away you ga.

Tliat's 4 II you need do to make^
straight copy o( I he en lire disk-
However, you may also w^nt to to

The Disk_

tppy JrdividuaE prc^rams from your
copy oP the co^erdisk tQ a separate
disk. In this cas« emunt that you hi\\y
undersbftfid which relatEd Ifles need lo
qo wrth it.

For fxample^ all of the document
Tiles Din the disk rtqyire that the l€»t
editor Pf^more is m the oufnent dJjk'j C;
directory, thecefore^ if you copy th«
doc to a new di^ jrou will also have to
CQ^ PPmofe LQ the rnew C: directofy
before you can f^ad them.

Some of the sfnaiier docs wpII not
have been crunched, so fgr th^s^ you
need only change the tool typei Oil the
icon's IniD screen to reflect Mikhever
teKt editor ym* cki have on the nerw
dlsL

As a ^nep*l rule, you ihould care-
fully read the documentditiOFi for any
program you copy from disk bo diik.

This ^an :u/v« a great deal o4 mess^
jng about and cjn help you devoid afJ
thos£ inluriaeing €rror rtie^sages! afij

Aini||« Computing 33

TVeasure Island

Author: Tony Heap

.M ^~4IPH liPtL W*kH Wi SriiUh

Trea&ure l&l^nd is a

text-only adventure in
Iht classic mould.

Where it differs fram
many others, however,
U that you could write
rl yourseiti

It was generated
using Heyley Soft-
ware'^ HatRack II
adventure generation

system, a piece of soft-

ware designed to niake~adver-ture
game writing as easy as possible,
Anyone who has ever used The Quifi
or Pro/^5^nd Adventure Writer from
Cllsoft will be tamHiar with this sort
of utility, and might even have
regretted the lack of such a pro-
gram on the Amiga,

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Ih u4 Mill, m «* h*»*l*BiwJ.

k» li^ III A r#Jti l»4iT Jiifc t« *4i|i* Til I J.

triuu9h to brln^ * fiostaJglc sigh (rom
older pamers - 1 l^xt-cmly adventMre

tlon With the computer Is carried

out entirely through the parser.

A parser is a word recognition
rouline which converts what you
type into commands the computer
can act on, and the HatRacfe sys-
You might be askirig yourself tern's parser is as flexible as the best
who on earth still plays text adven- of them,

tures these days, but \ remember it refes on the usual Vert^Noun
reading a debate on the issue in double act ('GET SWORD\ for
that excellent, If short-lfved, com- example) but can also cope with
puter mag Micro Adv^r^turer h^ck In adverts, adjectives, and pronouns
19S4 or thereabouts, and eve^n then ('^GET THE BIC SWOHD AND HEAVI-
the pundits were concluding that LY THRASH THE SLIMY EDITOR
the genre's days were numbered. WITH IT", for instance). The begln-
A^ far as ma|or commercial ner should thus be able to get his qr

releases go, that's more or less tme

today, but there are still A huge
number of adventure fans out there,
and if the number of tovingly-craft-
ed PD text adventures is anything

her wishes across to the computer
with relatively little fuss.

Jreaa/re hhr^d is a demo adven-
turer ^nd is therefore quite small
with only sixteen locations. It Is a

to go by, they enjoy writing and complete game in itself, however,
playing them as much as ever. The and contains a tricky problem
text adventure is nowhere near as whose solution you'll have to pon-

dead as they were predicUng seven
years ago.

Just In case you're completely
new to computer games, and
wouldn't know a Zorls if it sat up
and bit you in the nether regions,
here's a quick guide to get you
started.

You move around your text-
defined world either by entering
the directions as keyboard com-
mands or by clicking on
the graphical compass
which the HatRack system
uses for ail games. Apart

m this, commun lea-

der for a while. If nothing else it
should give latter day gamers a
taste of what they missed when
Knf ocomj
closed its
doors

touch, they are the player^s passport
to power-ups. Shoot a spider and
one of four types of power-up
appears ready to be collected, and
let me assure you that success is

These unmissable utilities can all be

found in the UTILFTIES directory. You
can't miss it - if s the big set of tools
in the disk's main window.

ImageED and
PasteGadgets

Author: Oiofleimann
These two utilities work best in com-
bination, and give the user freedom
to mess about ir^ any way he or she
chooses with the Amiga's 'system
gadgets'.

System gadgets are the gadgets
you click on to re size a window,
push it to the background, pull it to
the foreground, or close it. You're
normally stuck with the bland stan-
dard gadgets, but with ImageEd, the
user can load up the existing system
gadgets, alter them at will, and save
them as either raw binary or C source
code.

U^ing PasteGadgets, the cus-
tomised gadgets car^ then be loaded
in as pari of" a disk'"? startup-
sequence, lending your favourite
disks an air of customised quatity.

I mage Ed's limitations are that it
cannot utilise IFF images, so that all
systemgadgets must be defined with
its restricted single pixel drawing
mode, and its faifure to use a file
requestor. These bugs {if you c-an call
them that) aren t really all that dam-
aging, however^ as I mage Ed and
PasteGadgets remain easy and fun to
use. Fuller documentation for both
can be found on the coverdlsk.

Encrypt

Author: Steve Meredith
Have you evef stored files of a sensi-
tive nature on your Amiga and
wished there was some way of pro-
tecting them from prying eyes? You
may have stored financial informa-
tion in an address book program or
database, or may simply wish there
was some way to protect your love
letters from discovery. Privacy can be
precious!

Have yoy tried the AmigaDOS
command PROTECT <:fiiename> R
SUB? This would remove the READ
bit from the filename's flag set so
that the fife's contents could not be
examined until the flag was reset.
Mot a bad defence against Amiga-
illiterate snoopers, but hardly of yse
against the prowler with a knowt-
edge of AmigaDOS.

By using Encrypt, you can make

impossible in this game without a

healthy supply of them.

The most useful power-up, as witti
all arcade games, is the one which
grants extra firepower. Roilerpede'i
version takes the simple expedient of

sensitive files resistent to all but those
who know the pass<ode, thus ren-
dering them infinitely safer

To protect a file using Encrypt,
simply type the following:

Eritryit codtl n^^il <lilitiiit>

The Encrypt routine will then jumble
the file according to the two codes
and overwrite the original file. To
decypber the file, just use the same
passwords and the file wiil be
restored to its original form.

The big drawback with Encrypt is
that it Is not a 'runtime' encoder.
PowetPacker is a good example of a
runtime program because it com-
presses a flte, then attaches a header
to it which sels out how it will de^
compress. To use an Encrypted file,
however, the yser would have to go
through the CLI prior to every file
access.

This mean J that Encrypt could be
loo time-consuming for the casual
user who happens to be security-cOfl-
scious, and makes it of more use to
those with a real need for privacy on
his or her system.

J Menu "J

AuthQr: jT/m Coilim 3

IMenu is a PD program desJgnted to pB

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^How any average Amiga owner with
no knowledge of C or Assembler to
generate professional looking menus
from his or her own script files.

It requires the burnin^g of a few
briin cdls to use, but the results are
vfljrth the effort. To see it in actior,
clkk in the CU window at the bot-
tom of your screen to activate it,
then type

CD mtiitf tit 1*17 Jieflu atruHi*

Exectitt Exii^Ltl «flETlltN>

You may get error 20: out of memory
when using an unexpar^ded Amiga
500, If so. reboot your coverdisk,
interrupt the startup by pressing
CTRL-D as soon as boot-up begins,
then type in the lines as above.

]lvlenu works as a command with-
in a script file. When it is executed, it
calls its own special script file defin-
ing what choices the menu will offer
and what actions the Amiga should
take in response.

Once the user makes a choice by
clicking on tbe mouse, the response
is carried out and control is passed
back to the original script file. This

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doubling the prayer's rate of fEre,
wtiich t^n have a dramatic effect on
your greenie-totalling abiHty. It
ihouJdi be gobbled up a& soon as it
appears cin screen is ill power- up5
disappear after ^ few seconds if not

Mvould enable you, for instance, to
tail a menu from your startup-
jequeoce to offer a variety of startup
options, such as a NoFastK/tem start-
up. Of a stripped-dcfwn Workbench,

More usefuify, the program gives
average owners the ability Iq defme
nwnus which hold simple click-and-
go ""macro' style operations of their
choke. The possible uses are restrict-
ed only by your imagination and
nequifements.

The documentation supi^iied with
J Menu h rather brief, ^o you might
fmd a few words on its technical
aspects of some help. Syntax is of the
form

Jilinu «i(.rf;p.tiiiit>- <uirl4bLenaie>

where scriptname is the file contain-
ing information on the menu itself,
5nd variablename is the variable
wfiich will hdd the user's response.

The scriptname fife is made up of
three main typ^s of information.
Every rt^enu is made up of TtTLE
lines, which the user can use as he or
she likes, MEIS^U Hnes which hoJd the
choices which wiJI ^Lctually be dis-
played, and EXEC (ines which hold
the AmigaD05 actions to be carried
out as a result of the user'^ choice.

To define a menu, you must create
a script file Ifsting yo4jr MENU choiic-
es, then the corresponding EXEC
responses in the $ame order.

As long 3 5 you put a space
between the keywords (MEMU and
tXEq and the te^t. IMer^u will read
thEse and execute them accordingly.
See the example below as an iilustra-
lion.

flTLE Tilt h m tiiipti itnu

TETLE J^$| tor UK •f\y]i hi Iqh

T[TL[ inm MPtt

MENU Print I tUL^ ntm^t

mw h\t\X BTi (vcn imSif ieslist

HEIU Print in g|>surd itasHge

EEEt Uhi n [iit Ht'

ESEE^ Echo -i L1k« tbt NPeliiitrfii"

mcfcia "I tike tlii m PlierQ'^

The mefiL defined above would be

caBed by a line in a script file some-
thing lite this:

IMm tML^BK4ip[i uirl

and would display the merfu shown
in the JMenu screen shot.

One last thing to remember about
IMenij is that it treats the EXEC
AmigaDGS command as an environ-

collected.

The second most useful is the
'extra man' power-up. These appear
less ftequentiy than most but are a

quick and easy route to survivability.
The problem with very desirable

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A sINy exAfni^lc- mefiu - but you <4n bt
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ment variable, and wiji attempt to
write to the ENV: device, whFch is
where all environmertt variables are
stored.

Normally £NV: is set up either ^s a
real directory on your disk or, more
commonly, is assigned in the startup-
sequence as beirtg the RAM: disk.

This has already been done in
CoverDlsk aO's startup-sequence, but
if you move the program to a new
disk^ you wiiW have to put the line

mm iuHi m:

in its startup-sequence or type it into
CLI before using JMsnu.

Finally, feel free to experiment
with iMenu. There are quite a few
example scripts, and menus in the
jMenu directory, not all of which wiil
work from your coverdisk because
they require AmigaDOS commands
not in the desk's C: directory, but all
of which will work ff you transfer
JMenu to a Workbench di-sk.

ColourKwik

Author: Ad<jm Lock
CokiurKwik is one of those time-sav-
ing utilities which is only reatiy appre-
ciated by those who have tried the
alternatives, it makes it easy for the
user to alter and save to disk any sin-
gle set of Workbench colour prefer-
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messing about.

For e^campie, if you're one of
those people (Dennis Norden not
included) who have booted up a PO
disk or i covwd^sk, and enjoyed the
Workbench colours ft used enough to
try to emulate them, you'ii already
know how hellish a task Ft can be to
fiddle with the colour settings in
preferences.

Now ail you r\eed do is run the
ColourKwik program and then save
your palette to disk. The obvious
advantages $t^ that you can ship
colour paiietes from disk to disk with-
out the pointer $nd other prefer-
ences information contained in the
system -prefernces file, and that by
using ColourKwik you can easily alter
the colours on a disk which doesr^'t
contain the Preferences program.

power-ups such as this is that you

often get yourself killed in the over-
eager rush to collect them!

The other two are not as exciting,
but Shield can come in very handy,
and Boost will eam you a welcome
few extra points. Don't bust a gut to
reach these amidst a swarm of roller-
pedes, but pick them up if you can.

We're sure you 11 like flo/ferpede,
even if you have seen Its like bef«re.
it's fastr fun, and addictive. Enjoy!

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the magazine for yoo."

A flick through our 36 back issues
reveals a community of computer
enthusiasts growing month by
month with their machine.

Over the last three years we have
witnessed the Amiga develop from
an enthusiast's machine into a truly
affordable mass market home com-
puter.

Amign Compijfting ha& gone
thrxjugh exactly the same evolutton,
wideni:ng oyr scope as the computer
we serve continues to expand and
deveiop its diverge range of features
and capabilities.

A nostatgic focus on our first issue
reveals an uncanny number of para I-
iels between jun* 1988 and the pre-
sent dsy- Take for example our lead
news story in issue one: ""Amiga
catches up with ST."

In that piece, we published the
results of an ad -hoc survey of 100
computer dealers. We were pleased
to report that in the Midlands and
Sduth-Eastr the Amiga was outselling
its arch rival, the Atari SL two to
one.

One of the dealers sun^eyed, Stev&
Kingston from Bath Computer
Shack, offered an interesting insight
into the then Amiga market ^he ST
buyer I regard as an XR3 type aged

from 25 to 3S. But, strangely

enough, the Amiga purchaser seems
younger, v^ith the exception of those
people from the vertical markets
such as video production/'

Steve was certainly right to pin-
point video production as an area
where the Amiga would later estab-
iish a foothold to be envied by other
computer manufacturers.

This can be credited more to the
enthusiasm of third party peripheral
manufacturers than any virion
on the part of
Commodore.
The parallel be-
tween our first and
/current issues contin-
ues with the Bards Tale
adventure series from
Electronic Arts providing
a iink.
Back in '8i we took a
look at the original In our
first leisure software feature.
iSiow, three years and several
/thousand pages later, we are
" looking at the latest in the series.
Bards Tale lil, with equal commit-
ment and enthusiasm.

Phil South introduced the CLfc to"
eager beginners In issue one. Again a
parallel can be drawn. Stevie
Kennedy's "Beginners Guide to the
CLr series continues in this issue,
introducing a new batch of begin-
ners to the mysteries of the Amiga's
command line.

Forgetting the past for a moment,
here and now in 1991 the Amiga Is
probably the most e)<citing hardware
platform to write about. We couid
not hope for a more diverse range of
users, all trying to sway the maga-
zine in different directions.

Amiga Computing receives letters
daily from readers:, some praise,
some criticise, but all care passion-
ately about their machines. That fact
was only too clearly borne out when
i dared to comment on the relative
merits of the beloved Amiga lOOO in
a previous article.

The quantity and quality of argu-
ments from dedicated 1 000 owners
defending their machine was truly
breathtaking.

The running theme through
every issue of Amgo Computing
over the last three years has been
progression. Virtually every ejcpan-
sion avenue from hard disks to local
area networking and modems has
been EKpiored-

Our features have focussed on
Amigas in the classroom, on the race
track and even in the tunnels of the

Back

the
future

What does a birthday, a magazine and

a potato have in common?

Eddie IVIcKendricl< blows the dust off

our bacic issues to find out

London tJnderground.

August 1?S9 saw the launch of
Britain's first Amiga dedicated

CoverDisk. Since thenr ^ur cover
mounted media has provided
megabyte upon megabyte of enter-
tainment and utility software.

The first disk featured two
piayable game demos. Since then we
have responiied to readers views and
shied away from making our disk an
advertising platform for softwire
houses.

instead our Cover-
Disk has

become an integral part of the pubii-
cation, providing support programs
for articles and stand alone software
that really make the most of your
Amiga,

Other magazines have since
jumped on the coverdlsk bandwag-
on, but none can claim to be as
diverse or truly useful as those affixed
to the front of Airiiga CompuUffg.

Over the months our disk has

been the source of numerous exclu-

sives including the excellent

SID directory utility^ MED the

music editor and even an

official Commodore

Workbench upgrade. The

CdverDisk hai proven its

worth with our readers

time and time again.

As an experiment

Wife withdrew the disk

in February 1990 and

reduced the price of

Amiga Compulmg by

£1.00. Header response was over

I

i8 Amtgfl Computing

irthdff

ZfkMiCA

Tf/a 4] H p u T I II a

W/ OQmm u T I H a

AMtGA

SEPTEMBER
198S

Hews on 5cif|ware
enters the Amiga s<3ft-
ware market with the
title MetherwoFJrf, Last
month the ccimpany
was put into voluniary
receivership.

OCTOBER

1988

The USA Department of
Defense suffered a breal<-in. An

C-OM^UTIfia

■^/.C^o li P U T I H q

i'i*^* Amiga with a 6B030 being
used to simulate enemy attacks
was stolen, Obviously it didn't pre-
dict that the enemy would come in
through the bathroom win
dow.

NOVEMBER
1988

A Commodore
^pokesmaFi said
that Workbench
1 .3 was ^realised
but not yei
shipping!."

of new hardware and software is
devefoped to service this vast array
of new users.

APRIL 1989

Commodore announce the AS90
e;<teJ"nal hard drive and pu-t It up for
public inspection at the Whkh?
Computer Show,

MAY 1989

The John Menzies store chain starts
to back the Amiga by announcing it

wilJ be carried \r\ 14 of their outlet*.
At the time of announcing a de-
emphasis of Atari's machine,
Menzies' merchandising manager

^- 4 n P U T I H O

1^/^tniv

O M 4* U Y I N

whelming - it was
clear that our takulaled' experi-
ment had gone more than slightly
wrong,

In order to cooJ our swftchbqard
down and stop our postbag over-
flowing the disk waj hastily returr^ed.
It hasn't looted back since.

Around the Amiga
world in 36 issues,..

It woijld be im possible to summarise
all the major events Amiga
Compuling covered in its first three
years. Instead here is a fook at the
niore quirky side of the
machine.

JUNE 1988

A magazine with the
internal working tlLle
of *'Your Potato""' hits
the news-stands. By
the time it gets into
the sweaty hands of

lUl
th& pyh-
fic, it assunnes the
more formal title of Awiga
Corvputmg. The launch Issue Features
a li>Qk at what Ires in store for the
Amiga.

JULY 1988

We heraJd the arrival gf the FM 18
Interceptor flight simulali^Qn. With a
scgre of 96% Simon Rockman confi-
dently described Ft as "The greatest
Amiga game ever. You will believe a
computer can make you fly."

AUGUST 1988

Palace software announce that
they are doing a
special version of
thek ''Barbarian
II" packaging fol-
lowing complaints
from Boots about
the scanty attire of
\ Maria Whittaker

DECEMBER
1988

While other computer com-
panies are suffering a DRAM
famine, Commodore are claiming
to control 40% of the world
memory market. "We are stNl
building PCs and Amigas at a time
when several other manufactures are
struggling to keep their plants turn-
ing over/ a byllish Commodore
spokesman commented.

JANUARY 1989

We take a look at the official
Commodore BBC emulator. A prod-
uct designed to help the Amiga
break into the classroom. The emula-
tor won't run games or any program
which breaks Acorn rules. Slow at
machine code, but magniffcent for
runnmg educational software.

FEBRUARY 1989

A new strain of Amiga virus is discov-
ered. The IRQ virus is different
because rt corrupts programs rather
than disks. Also Commodore US
"strongly disagr&es" with a tax bill of
S74.1m from the IRS.

MARCH 1989

The Amiga is fast approaching a^
worldwide user base of 1 million.
Commodore announce pJans to
ensure that an ongoing supply

Bcib Shinglton confides: ^Tlie voJume
of .Atari ST sales certain fy did not
come up to our expectation 5'^

lUNE 1989

In the aftermath qf the Lockerbie air
disaster, an Amiga 2000 is teamed
with video to reconstruct the site of
the crash so police can work out
what happened immediately prior to
the accJdenL

JULY 1989

WordPerfect corporation in Utah USA
announce that they have closed their
Am^ga development sec-
tion. It is cfear

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have not been abandoned. In the
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announces that the £CS will not
work with the 1O0O.

NOVEMBER 1989

Nick '^Creen'^ Vietch joins the

Amiga Compiillng team
One of his fir&t assign
rnents is to meet Elvira,
the result of which
farms oyr caption
competition in this
month's Rock Lobster

DECEMBER 1989

Marketing manager Jeff Earl leaves

Commodore ''to persue hU own
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having more doors marked "e)<it"
than ''welcome*' doe^ not yet ask
new reCRjits to sign the visttors book.

JANUARY 1990

With 45 shopping days before
Christmas, Commodore rather meek-
ly announces rt has sold out of
Amiga SOOs. The reason for such
huge success is the simultarreaus
iaunch of Ocean's "Batman'' game
and the Commodore Amiga. 500
bundle bearing the same name.

FEBRUARY 1990

FiRt hints of a 1 mb Amiga 500 come
Lo light as Commodore start to ship
the machine with space for the extra
512k on the motherboard. Afso in
Feburary, Amiga Computing stop5 the
CoverOisk and reduces the price of
the magazme by £1 .

MARCH
1990

CD'W was reported
to have been shown
to "favoured" devel-
opers in California. Also
Commodore celebrated
its 200,000th Amiga 500
sale in the UK

APRIL 1990

Commodore were reported
to be "furious" at leaks con-
firming that the Civil Aviation
Authority would be using Amiga
ZOOOs to train pilots. Their fury cen-
tred around a headline in ""Computer
Weekly^, a trade magazine for data
processing managers. "Flight Con-
trollers to train on g^mes kit" was
not appreciated by the company. -

MAY 1990

We previewed perhaps the most suc-
cessful utility program for the Amiga

ever - AMOS' the creator. In the
same issue we announced that
Amiga Computing would be pub-
lished on paper that v^as ''kinder to
the environment." You carr sleep
safe in the knowledge that Amigi}
Computing is printed on paper which
uses a chemithermo-mechanicai pro-
cess which is greener than older
methods.

JUNE 1990

The Amiga 3000 drew closer with a
corrfirmed iaunch pad of the Which?
Computer Show^ ""Hhe Tipster" horse
racing form speculator program feil
at the first hurdle in the Grand
National. The only horse tipped by
the software came in fourth,

JULY 1990

Amiga Compuling pmvides the first
exhaustive look at the long awaited
Amiga 300O but we are still waiting
for CDTV. In the same issue The Last
Bfit relates the woeful tale of Creen,
our then Reviews Edtor who was run
over by a car during ^n assignment
in Dublin.

AUGUST 1990

Commodore officially anr^ounces
CDTV at the CES show in Chicago.

Staying on the theme of innovation,
Mandarin software release the eager-
ly awaited AMOS games creator.

SEPTEMBER 1990

120 schools in Derbyshire wooid be
teaching their pupils Japanese using

Commodore's CDTV technology. The
unlikely move is a result of Toyota^'s
decision to build a £700m car assem-
bly plant WFthin the county.

OCTOBER 1990

Silica System^ announce the arrival
of the ATonce PC emulator for the
Amiga. Thousands of Amiga owners
are terrorised by the Lamer II vifus
distributed on the now defunct
fAMpage disk magazine. Ocean soft-
ware admitted that the copy protec-
tion On F-29 Retaliator caused some
copes to crash due to problems with
the tolerance of some disk drive
units.

NOVEMBER 1990

Surprise surprise... Commodore

announce delays to the launch
of CDTV. The company is now
citirtg a mid-febaiary launch
as probable.

DECEMBER 1990

Amiga Citmpyting veterans
get a shock as the first
"new iook" issue hits the
street. The cover features
a hideously mutated
creature - even after
extensive make-up you
can't fail to be
appalled by the sight
of Stephen White.

JANUARY 1991

The Amiga 1 500 hits the streets ar>d
our reporters hit the floof when they
encounter a retailer selling "free"
Commodore T-shirts off his stand at
the Commodore Christmas Show.

FEBRUARY 1991

Wfe report on the worldwide frenzy
caused by the football simulation
Kick Off 2. The software was report-
ed to have drawn a crowd of 15,000
players at a league event in Itaiy and
caused a police crowd contrd unit in
intervene during a German event,

MARCH 1991

Commodore announce that they
sold an amazing HO, 000 A500s in
ihe UK over the pre-Chrisimas period
of October-December, In the same
issue we start to ask questions about
software censorship. The letters of
response are stiJI coming in.

APRIL 1991

It's ihat CDTV thing again...
Commodore's press guru Andrew
Ball is still talking about a spring
launch for the multi-media system.
In the same issue we report on an
interactive skateboard launched by
Cheetah. Aero^kale connects to the
games system or computer then the
player jumps aboard using balance
and ieans left or right to avoid being
zapped during the game.

MAY 1991

Amiga Computing receives a letter
from the Gulf congratulating Page
One Public Dom^ain on shipping their
wares to the war lane so quickly,
CDTV is getting closer with a demon-
stration of its capabilities on the
BBC's Tomorrows World science pro-
gramme. Commodore announce that
the Screen Gems package will be
shipped with 1 mb memory as stan-
dard for a limited period.

Whkh fide hai
tlie miak«-up on?

Amiga Computing 41

MEGA BLITZ!

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PDU ^3 Fish#1 1 D A6aK AsMfnbler

PDU 24 Fiah#1 14 C Dote

PDU 26 Fish#1 33 Console Handl&r

PDU 27 F15NBI36 Cnea[9 own puzzles.

PDU 23 Fiah#l 4an ^ 1 SePrwIo^ 2 disks

PDU 31 Fisbtf143 RIM Dalabase

PDU 32 F--5h#i 44 AnHlytic spreadsheet

P DU 38 F i5h#1 S5 Official. CBM IF F di sk

PDU 43 F^fihfl^a AsMifnhler 4 C &g

PDU 44 Fi5hrf2 1 5 Mandei-vroam V2.0

PDU 45 FishsZI D ScienTilic calculator

P DU 46 F ishfl 21 3 Icon £[300 1 n Q cotorg^

PDU Si Fish#21 9 Aslfonomy program

PDU 52 Fi5h#52 A-Z Text EdiSof

PDUSQFish#237GLIpnnt

PDU 70 Fish 19a Key map Editor

POU 72 SID V t .06 "me ultimate di sk uli L

POU74C-Manual

PDU?SFLleArch.iver

PDU 8CI Fonts and Surfaces

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POU B2 Scale. Wofdwritfl

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PDU 99 Ham Radio utils(5 disks)

POU 1 01 MflRU- Maker

POU 1 02 Label d^s^gner

POU 103 Icon -MaKef

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PDU 1 0S Crossword Creatof

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PDU 1 46 Grocery +.Vi(t50 IJ&t nTsker

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PDU 151 Fix disk-disk repairer

PDU 1 64 Games Music Creator

PDU 1 6ft Vaccm^-Boo Sler( Virus killer)

PDU 169 QuicNSa$$- Database

POU 171 Fi5.ni?315Draw-map

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POD 1 Anarchy Demo

POD3CullD&modisk

PDD 4 Dea^hi!LtarMegadamo(2 dishs)

POD 7 Elvira Damo

PDD 14 RAF Me^domo(2 d^sks)

POD 16 Robocop Demfl

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PDD 70 Rebels Magadan^

PDD 71 Red Sector DeiTKi

PDD 72 Red Seclor Demodi5k#4

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PDD 75 ScDDpex Oen^t

PDD 7eSC00F>&* Megaderno

POD 90 T n^ogy Demo &#4

PDD 91 Trilogy Me^ademo#1

PDD 9311^1 Dem-oW-r us lei Her

PDD 94 Varlax Me9ademo

PDD 96 Maoneljc Fields Demarf3^

PDD 97 Predators Meaademo(5 disks}

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PDD 131 CRon^■cs Demo

PDD 132 Giants M6^demoi2di^kS)

PDD 1 3^ Maf neti c F ield& De motf 4$

PDD 133 Page One Demotfl

PDD 139 Page One D*m&ii2

PDD 1 40 Page One DemD#3

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PDD 152 f iQsh't^o Brain No Pain'(2)

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ANIMATION

PDA ^ KnigNl Animal! on^ 1 meg}
PDA 12 Agatron Star Trek Anlms 2
PDA 13 Agatron Star Tre*( Anims 1 7
PDA T 4 Puggs m Space
PDA IS Moonwalkef Demo
PDA tS Mitlef Lite Advert
PDA 31 NudeOirlsApim
PDA34ea5kotballAnim
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PDA 36 6FP0 Slideshow#2(ia+)
PDA 37 Busy Bee An im
PDA 41 DigrviewerSlidestiow
P DA A2 Df a^ons Lai r De mo
PDA 44 French Hom(1 meg)
PDA45Monocycla4SfX5rt5car(1 meg)
PDA 47 Holsten Fils Acfvert
PDA 48 Magnum Jogger Anim
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PDA 54 NASA Graphics

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PDAGlSabrina

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PDA 6d Walker Derm 1 (^m@^,2di5l(s)

PDA 70 Walker Def™2( 1 meg)

PDA 73WestCQastCraci:er#4(ia+)

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PDA 69 Bo^ar'g Bordiallorig (1 B-t-)

PDA 90 Bur^a^ Bui-rter-Jet Fighter anim

PDA 92 D.Landor^ Sci-1i Show#t

PDA 93 D. Landers Sci-fi Shew#2

PDA 95 Ma^iCian^Jo^ef Anims

PDA 9 7 Mi ka Tysg n Knocko u t ii\ sit

PDA 106 Back To the Future tlamms

PDA 1 Ofl Adama Family

PDA 1 10 Bruoe Lea Enter the Dragon

PDA 1 1 Bruce Lee Slidashovv II

PDA 1 12 Drajgons Lair II Demo

PDA114 Neighbours SJideshow

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PDM 3 Music Invasion II

PDM 4 Mus.^ h^aaion lli(^ diSKG)

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PDM 6 Winkers 50ng(2 disits)

PDM 9 Ride on tma 4 BatdariDe

POM 1^ Bad- M.Jackson

POM 2D Bat Dance

POM 27 DMOe MegamusiclM

PDM ^a Enemies Mueic ill

PDM 30 Digital Cor^cert Ih

POM 31 Digital Concert I II

PDM 33 HetloweenTollowthe Sign'(2)

PDM SSThink were alone now^Ttlfany

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POM 3e Umm'^ Vic© Theme H disk^)

POM 4g MFI Vangelis Demo

POM 65 Diglal Concert IV

POM 7^ Nei5ep%-arV2.40

PDM 72 PDprtye meessttie Beachboys.

PDM 80 DigplBl Concert VI

POM 82 Freddy Kruge*

PDM 83 Kefrens JukebOiC

PDM ^4 MadoRina-Hanlfy pank^

PDM 8^ Miami Vice -Crockets Thenia

PDM 87 RIP Eruption

PDM 88 Slab Music

PDM 91100 Most Heme mbered Ce4 tunes

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PDM l06Bet1yBaa

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PDM 12S Mr Foo<H2 disks)

PDW 1 28 N ASP V2,0

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PDM l32PetshC]paoy^Remi!cfl2

PDM 142 The Amiga Chart III

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POG S Card a Board Gamea

PDG 1g Marble S^icie

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PDG 26 Tree sy research

PDG 31 Moria

PEG 32 Legend o1 Farghei'

PDQ 33 Arc&dia(&'eakoLit sEy*e9ame)

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PDG 36 Pair II

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Vou don't need to be an Einstein to have fun with atoms, at least
that's what Psygnosis wQuld have us believe with thejr latest release.
The bask idea is to construct molecules by pledng together atoms.
Each alcinri that you ptace has a certain number of electrons that
QF bit around il, ali of which must he linked before you suttessful
build up a completed moFecule. Expect it reaJly soon for the usual
Piygnosis price.

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Find out about the (atest games
FIRST in AlIJ|f& Computing;..

ST0RMBALL-Af/7te/rm(/m

If you thought rugby was a tough g^me, just w^ft until yau get a load of the
kind of antics that the players gel up to in Millennium's latest release,
Stofmball. Billed as Uhe sport of the future^ Storm ball fooks I ike '-a cross
between Speedball and ID soccer that sees up to two players simultaneously
battling it out in a split-screen 5D game. Rules seem to be an aftertljoughttoo
' put Simply^ anything goes so you'd better put on your pads unJess you wariL
to end yp eating hoipitai food.

LEMMINGS 2 - Psygnosis

Lemmings tAmiiti will be over the moon to team that DMA pro-
grammer Dave Jones has already stirted work on a follow up. It
still has a very long way to go before we get the chance to save
ev^n more of those little gneen-haired fellows from certain deaths
but Dave h optimistic that tile game should be ready for some
time later this year

According to Dave, the gameplay format ii very similar to the
orlginalH but there'i a greater amount of interaction with the
background. Lemmings can now pick up objects, move them
about and even use them to heJp complete each screen. There
are also many more t^sks that can be assigned to Lemmings.

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WRECKERS - Attdlogenlc

There's nothing more annoying than bemg woken from a good nap, but
things are even worse if you just happen to be in suspended animation. In
Audiogenic's latest release, you've been woken from your deep sleep by the
ship's computer that informs you that some highly dangerous alien slim* is

heading your way.

It's up to you to jour-
ney around the ship^
preparing for the slime's
arrival,

Eventually, all this
changes to a fight for
survival a^ the slime
invades your shfp. Oohl
^ien eat your heart out.

BIRDS OF PREY - Electronic Arts

It's t^en over three and a half years corning, but jez San's latest block- j
busier has finally arrived. Combining some of the most realistic depth^ued
3D obfects with fast and fyrious g^meplay^ Birds of Prey promises to be
something very special indeed. |

Vou tan take i^p a large number of different aircraft, IncSuding the AlO ■;;
Thunderbolt the F16 Fighting Fakon, F1 4 Tomcat, Harrier, Soviet MlC-29
Futrum and even the good old firiltsh Tornado. If \ei and the rest of the
gang manage to find enough time between yet another p^zza, then you j
can CKpett a full review very soon. ^

44 Amtga Cofliputlng

You'd betti&rbecdKeful clidi N'^lh^n
fiDein't drop off thdl m-unHj-^bout

H^ve you noticed thit
de^pitE hqw utterly
■wretched a chi^d may be,
the parent still think that they're a
lity& angel? Whether they're running
around the supemiaiier pelting each
other with rice crtspies or thf-owing
stones at passing cars, the parents
always turn around and try to justify
tlie child'^ actions by claiming that
their child Is tM young to know oth-
erwise.

Of course we ^11 know that this fs
far from the truth. Fact is, kfcds are
pretty smart characters. Take young
Nathan, for example. During the day
he's a pretty lovable sort of fellow,
but as the 5un wts, Nathan changes
into something quit^ terrible - he
becomes a bfal., As his bodily self
rests. Nathan's mind goes into ovef-
drive, taking him to a land where
he's a really cool character, complete
with leather jacket and shades-
Even in his dreams poor Nathan
wanders around in a daz^r unable to
look after himself. Scattered around
dreamland are many hazards that
wll cause Nathan to wake *f he runs
into them. Being a rather young
chap, he needs as much sleep as he
can get, so if s up to you to ensure

that Nathan's journey around dream-
land remains wake-free.

Unfortunately, you can't directly
control our IhtJe brat hero, instead,
you must use the mouse to
lay down guiding
arrows that
will point
Nathan in the
right direction.
These must be lafd
directly in his path.
As soon as he wafks
over an arrow, he
changes direction

depending upon whkh way the
arrow points-
Along the way he can al$o pick up

objects with which lo msite the
going a little simpler These include
dynamite and even Jtop si^gns
which can be ysed to halt traffic
Brat h a lot of fun.
Although initiaHy frustrating,
you'll soon find it to be a
source of many hour^ nf enter-
tainment. Once again^ it seems
imageWorks have delivered
the goods-.

lm<m Holborn

steer naugfity toy Hathan througfi dreamtantt

Publisher; Imageworks Price: £19.95

Pkktn-g up the stklcj

mikes thkngx «islef
on Idter levels

Hwt'% UKfhift^ at y«y punU

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GraptiV

What CAii I %my7 BTmV%
graphics are t&p notch.
Add ta thai a gr«at (and
rather humaroui) Intro^
tcrquanfe, and you liava a
graph U'Hy superb gam«.

Sound

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fuit like th« graphlci^
Brat'i lound effecti are
miitt v«ry cuttfjTH tcpftcial-
ly tha ftamplcf «f
Nathan^t speech. Tha
tuna li ^reat too, al-
thoygh It tandi to gat
rather annoying after a
while.

irat playi very similar t&
that other great Amiga
gamttj Lentfntngs. It may
net qtitte be up |d the
iama itandardi ai
Lammlngi whare orlgJ-^
nalKty and lattl ng Intar-
ejt U concerned, hut irat
■ till manag^f to be b
great lltti* gama.
Definitely one for every-
one 'i toftware collection.

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Computer RPC fans could
5carcefy have failed lo
encounter one d the three
Bard's Tale games. They are just a
couple of the many Dungeons and
Dragons type oi role- playing games
ttiat hafve appeared over the l$$\ few
yt^r^ and each new release seems
more like the grandaddy of RPC than
?vef.

Bard s Tale III Is another of the
"cjieare a party and go and mash the
monsters'' RPCs, and Wihlle il^s not
the k>est in my opmion. It does have
a fair amount going for it.

The quest is simple. The Mad Cod
Tarjan is throwing his- insane and
som^vifhat humungous bulk around
and not surprisingly the inhibrtants
of the varrous towns that he laid
waste to and populated with evil are
a little narked.

Ideally youVe aiming to kick
Tarjan's immortaJ butt out of the
larid but a ^ood place to start is the
local town of Skara Brae.

Players of either of the other
Bard's Tale games vvill be able to
directly port their e^^isting character
party mto the latest sequel, so you
can make best use of the items of
pofwer that you- fought so bravely fgr
last time. New players should not let
this put them off though because
ETIII may be pFayed by beginners to
RPCs.
The screen display never changes.

Sound

1

Thara'i no real munii to
f|i«jik Qi, though you do
9«t m little Mt tli¥i«9^ and
WtiJt there ti f oiindi Ade-

It's a series of vvindows with informa-
tion on the party and its surround" -
ings. To view a character yg^ rnerely
press a key and the itats are called
up. Unfortunately this also calls up a
picture of the character as well which
takes some time.

According to the manual you can
skip this by holding down Sf^lFT and
pressing the number but this didn't
seem to work. A shame, because it

Gamtpiay

Bmrd'% TAle III Is addictive,
mej-ely beeauit I like the
gam* type enough to p*r-
t«v«re, and there ii a
h«rt> challenge In there
for RPG f^ni. A ptty about
thoie itlgglei though.

makes swapping of booty and check-
ing oF condition very tiresome.

ShouW the party meet a monster^
a picture of it is displayed in the top
left window.

The name of the monster is told
and you are given varfoui options.
You Can attempt to mn away, hide,
or advance. If you have bowmen and

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ehoose Ira:
Fiqht Ik^avely
Run Aw^

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A *u«^*Tv«f ninths f«r

The pBit)^'^ fint

ihduld bs a walf^

thif building iiiiy took
dereMct, b|i| it contains
enough equEpm«nt to
^ malt your team a
Formtdable fap<«-

TTie s-palli of tK« encoiunter.

^h^^i hnowtedge carrMf In

bandy fof ad^^flncing lev*^s,

while the geld will b^y

A^uipmcnt and food

The uftfmatB quest continues.

Graphics

Pre i«n tut Ion li nlc« hut
not flowloii. I p«rttcu]«-
iy noticed n flicker that
runi down tht list of
chBr^Cter nainoi about
once a minute. Thli wme
offliiitting and looiit
antntourlili * ■itrely the
prograniiin«rs could. Iiavc
debugged it? Craplitc)
are eipeclAll^ nrat and
full off character.

spe)lcaster^ in the party they can fire
from withirt range but the monsters
have the same options as you so
eventually you'll get up ctose.

A commentary on what every-
thing is doing and how much vari-
ous people are hurt appears in the
top right wmdow.

Spells are cast by clicking with the
mouse on the spell name and then
pressing a key f&r the target. I did
find the game somewhat confusing
to control as the designers couldn't
decide whether to plump for the
keytward or mouse as a form of con-
trol and have come to a compro-
mise. This means switching between
mouse and keyboard quite a lot and
I found it awkward.

foiling characters was also tricky.
You have to select sex and race of
the character and then a series of
stats is chosen randomly and dis-
pfayed. If these are acceptable
(which they often aren't) you then
press a key for class. If they are not
you hive to press escape and go
through the whole process again. A
system similar to other RPCs would
be better^ with a sir>gle keypress re-
roiling statistics.

John Diglan

BARD'S TALE

Publisher: Electronic Arts Price: £24.99

»C "tht FIS *A PK dt
!

Getting into tht Icmpk
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itnowlfldgCr atitaln^^
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Down In the duFigcons,

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bit cf trouhk "witN n

l^w moniters- L&ok)

llkje a s.tJrri p4rty

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P A1 TANK KILLER

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Star of the Gulf W^r and West
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the awesome combat potential of
the AlO has been captured within
DynamiJt'j latest release. Ifs a com-
bat flight simulator which put5 yo>j
in the hot seat of t^e aircraft that
was onci described (^ ^ US Airtaorne
Ranger as 'tihe only true friend of the
modern US tnf antiyman'.

SOp iff you feel man (or woman}
enough for the job, it'5 time to strap
on your Biggies flight goggles, wrap
your white scarf around your neck
and go in search of something to
destroy

Strategy ii an atMmportant part d

Alilif}d Ctpinplillni;

nk iind
ffi pift!

the g^ime, but for the mu^clehcjidE
among you, there's m option which

allows you to f»y straight into the thick
0* iMtUe, blasting aw^y with your 30
rtmn cannons and Maverih lire and
Jofget' mis5ite5.
There are
ieven differ-
ent missions
wbkh yau can
undertake, rarsglrig
from tank bustmg to
taking out bridges to
itep the enenny advance

AlO realty coines into its
own in campaign mode, Vou
play ex^tly the same seven mts-
sions that you wouW normaliy, but
all must be played in succession.
|u5t like in real iife however^ you
can't $crew up one mission and
ihen expect to cany on as
nonnai when you move
onto the next, Vour sue- %
cess within
pre-

Wtti mtsiH^s tacked o^n, yoti fly law ov^r ftfl ffrwrtiy aFrtKiie. Press Ih^ |lr« btJtton iFld
maverlclu icwam fem«rd, ripping hu^ cliunhi out of Uiit airfiEld

vious missions ¥/ill have a marked

eftett on the ease of your nej<t. if you
screw up totaify you m^y even cause
the war below you to be lost^ forcing
surrender to enemy forces.

M you'd expect, gamepiay is exe-
cuted iii good oid solid 3D, but it's,
f^r from perfect. Mdst of the time
things run smoothly enough, but
the game can siow down to a
v^fjtable crawl wh€n the
action hots up. Un-
fortunately^ \f% times like
this when you

most need to be able to get out of
trouble quickly. Your AlO may he
able to take $ fair bit of punishment,
but it's not indestmdiblel

AT Tank Buster is a great game
which is let down only by the speed
of its graphics. The attentron to
detail Jeaves other combat flight sim*
ulators grounded, whilst the atmo-
sphere it generates is second to
none. It's jU5t a shame Dynamic
hadn't managed to get things run-
ning at a slightly faster frame rate. If
they hadr AlO Tank Buster would
have been one hell of a
game. As it is, it can
fc. often leave you
Frustrated.

Holboum

Scracit updAt* If fjitlif ic-
toff, but things can dow
down to ftn «nitoylng
tr^wl when th* action
really itartf. Cvmpartd
t4 game] llk« F19
RttAlifet^r 0r Acttvtiton't
#ovnbcr, AlO runt >t t
fnall pace, miglllied
option ftrrens add a
great d^m^ af atmoiphera
to the game.

Souad

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A fili'ly naff tItE* tune
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but thin 91 Improva can-
siderabijr within th*
game lt««lf. Sound
«ff«ct$ arc particularly
good, but It'i a ihain«
you don't get to h«ar
them mor« orten.

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Gameplay

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Golf is one of the world's
biggest particrpation
sports, and wouldn't you
know it from the recent jpate of
games for hookers and slicersl

PCA Tour CoHf, fresh from m con-
quests on the PC tour, has now sur-
faced on the Amiga, and looki like a
champion in the making.

What sets this game apaft from
others in the field, apart from being
an Electron ic Arts product, is the
quality of the golf action i tseff.

Too many games have concen-
trated on gimmicks at the expense of
g-amfiplay, but EA have managed to
come closer than any other to simu-
lating actual golf.

In play, this translates as a much
more refined representation of the
swing and the fiight of the baru
would have liked a few mme shot
options such as those in last year's
Creg Norman game, but simplicity
of approach pays off in the end.

The traditional swing bar is ysed
to hit the baN, but in this c^se, the
penalty for inaccurate timing is real-
istic, tven ilfght mistakes tan result
in a viciogs hook or slice, which gives
the game an element of club-throw-
ing frustration just like the real thing.
What made me v^ry &ngry, more
so even than when my second and
third shots both went in the water at
the seventeenth, was the total lack of
even a token female option. The
game is based around the US PCA
Tour^ and allows the pla:yer to com-
pete against 60 of the v^forld's top
maie professionals^ but women
golfers such as I can only be appalfed
that there is no women's tour option,
There are thousands of female
golfers and computer users in this
country, and they must be getting

Graphics 1

PIaIii for th« moit part,
iHit th« fwttchlng camtrB
■ng|« is A rfrfti winner.

Sound

CLUB: p MECH^E

Alinait noii~«Klitftnt
except for dn« of tli«
WAr»t Koadlng tunci TVfi

Tbere are s«v«ral handy i|Hclal shotl to thoasL :

pretty chees&d-off by the constani:
stream of games which force you to

tee off from the mens' teej and play
a rourid from the point oF view of ai
blond-haired hulk. Software produce
efs please take notef

OK^ ranting aside, the rest of the
game is excellent. Once the baH is
actually struck, it soars off into the
distance and it is at this point the
game boosts the atmosphere with a
very useful gimmick The 'camera
angle' switches to a poir>t ahead of

the ball Rooking batk down the fair-
way, and your bail icreams into view
to land with a thunk^ a thud, or a
splash.

Thiis simpie trick gives the player a
far better look at the shot than if it
just disappeared into the distance,
a^nd dees more than any other gim-
mick i've seen to convey the atmo-
sphere of Cod's own sport

The pseudo 3D puttrng surface,
which you can rotate to examine the
bof rovv, h useful if not very pretty.

Gamepl

Mor« «r th« ufusi, but

wllh m little bit extra.
Difficulty levftl Ml b«frn
pltth^vd futt rfght, and
the taur «teni«nt t; g<^oil
for long term appe#l.

but I've yet to discover how you shut
it off, and it can be annoying when it
pops up for a pilch from just off the
green. That sard, putting is as diffi-
cult a» it deserves to be, and on
those tricky American greens too!

All in all, it's stifl a golf game, but
EA's PGA Tour Golf woufd be a first
choice on my list of sports sims,

Sandra Foley

OOPSP A nasty iHce can be the ^emlt of a miitimed that

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Amiga games players
who've been around for a
yeif or so will no doubt
remember the original Supercars. It
was far from unique as an overhead
view car racing game but it did inave
B few featyrfs that lifted it out of the
ordinary.

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ing you are asked to select either

easy, medium or hard level thefi it's
foot to the floor time-

TJie circuits start tA%y, with plenty
of straight sections and nothing
especially tesiing. The game is
viewed from above and the style of
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possible. Ydu (and a friend if applica-
ble) are represented by a coloured
car. The computer cars (and there
are a lot of them on molt levels) are
all white.

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would do it injustice because much
of the game revolves around com-

Buying wcapQnx with t^r wlnnincj^ c^r^ fdrri yau mon^y K you're a ihrewd ipeculator

bat. After each race you tnter the
shop (assuming you were placed in
the top five cars) and the winnings
fpom the race can be squandered on
repairs for the car and estra anrnour
and weapons to increase your
chances of winning the next

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The standard types are front and rear
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by pushing the Joystick forwards or
barck respectively. In the shop either
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for homing missiles (deadly and very
accurate), spinning missiles that cir-
cle the car for "a couple of seconds,
aind land mines.

Other add ons tnclude armour
(reduces damage to the car from
deflections), a larger engine size and
a battering ram which causes dam-
age to the other cars when you col-
lide with them head on. This may
come in very handy when you're in a
tight bunch. As you need to fight for
positionSr every dirty trick in the
book will be useful. Don't feel at all
guiity because the computer drivers

Scafextric on screen

r

Graphics

The graphlci iirc net
much af Mft Improvement
a¥«r the orlf Inal but
then they w«r« good
tnough to begin with.

Sound

I

Sound If limited to viplv-
fli^AS end revf In ipemc
and s tunc In the fiiojl
lectlon.

b

Addlct1«>n li limply not
the wi^rdp thvugh with
only ten treckf per level
Vd doubt thet you'll be
et the Ice/baard foirever.
Well worth I eying 9ut e
pony for.

will pull no punches, rest assuredl

Later levels feature everything you
ever wanted from a Super-Deluxe
Scalextric set. Jumps, lumps,
crossovers, chicanes and openirg
and shutting gates as well as 9
choice of routes on certain levels
makes for some reilly tough raceSr

Playing with another Human play-
er means you are yying for the top
spot with one extra contender
about, which makes things a bit
tougher. Picking on each other witi
only mean dropping out of the top
five though ^o avoid it at all
co5t5.Supe rears Z is a very worth-
while game,

Jo^hn DIglan

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So you think you're pretty mean with a joystick eh? Then why not prove it
by sending in any cheits or tricks thai you may have found for youf
fivourite games. We're particuHarly interested in tips for brand new games

such ss those reviewed in this issuer so get writing. Who knows, you might
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JAMES POND

The name's Pond, |ames Pond.
Licence to kill, 007. If you find my
antics i little too much to manage,
then type MR2 when the mission
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and" you II now be completeiy inde-
structible. Even 'M' couldn't come
up with a tKtter cheat than this!

We all like to think that we're pretty
mean joystick wagglers, but even the

best need a little help occasionally.

Take a trip to The Came Zone Tip Shop

with |ason Holborn

E-SWAT

Life's tough on the streets, so this

handy little cheat will come as a wel-
come help. Pauie the game snd type
JUSTIFIED Ar^tCIENTS OF MU MU.
The screen will then flash and you
will have 99 credits. Something tells
me the programmer Is into the KLFI

TURRICAN

Fancy 99 lives? If so, then get your-
self onto the hiscore table and enter
ydur name as BLUESMOBfL ff yoy

then start another game, you'N have
all thoie luverley lives, making it. easy
to reach the high socres agiflinJ

TURBO ESPRIT

If you can't quite handle the perfor-
mance of Lotus' sleek turbo street
racer, then you can jictrvate this little
cheat mode which allows yoy to
qualify for races without having to
be in the top ten. In two player

HORROR ZOMBIES

If the creepy crawligj are getting to you. then

type in BOGEYMAN for infinite lives.

To skip levels, type CHEATMOOE during play
and then press 'FIO'. You will then be taken
straight to the next leve:!.

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FIELDS OF FIRE and player two's
name as IN A BIG COUNTRY. Aw't
ihey U2 songs? (Nope, Big Country
songs ■ Ed)

ROBQCOP 2

Robocop's prime directives probably
wouldn't agree with cheating, but
who cares anyway? Type in SEftlAL-
INTERFACE (with no sp&tes) on the
title screen to access the cheat
mode. You can now restore your
energy by pressing F9 and skip for-
ward to the next level by pressing
Fl 0. Your move punkJ

AWESOME

It may be jolly pretty, but there's no
doubting that it's pretty tricky too. If
you need a little help, then press the
plus symbol on your numeric keypad
and press the fire button on your
joystick. If you then start the game,
pressing F1 will turn off yOur ene-
mies, F6 will repienish your fuel sup-
ply and 1 dirough to 1 [press the
key for 10) will allow you to access
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ProWrtle from New Horizons
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QuickWfFti wordprocessor
we reviewed fast month, and h n^w
widely available in its latest veriion
11 release.

One of the OS's older wordprocei-
sor hmilies. Pro Write has never reaJly
CAught Oft in this coyntiy, twjt with
Its £129 pnce tag there's no reason
"ft^hy it shoufdn t be competfng with
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Hype-wrap

For the begmner in wordprocess-
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my to use, friendly in opefation ami
appears to be almost bug-free. I
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al only once during the creation of a
document which included multipfe
coJumn$, irnported graphics, a vari*
fly of fonts and styte, and headers
and footers.

I was eventually forced to open
the n?ianual by the pa-ckaging's cfaim

No need lo itkfc
Eo dtih styles
with Plroi/vrtte

that It was possible to 'wrap text
around pictures'. This to me means

the same as auto-flow, the facility
whereby text is automatically fitted
around any graphic, no matter how
irregular its shape, and would
amount to a major plus for a pro-
gram in PfoWrite's price bracket,

Despite a very close inspection of
the otherwise helpfuf manual, how-
ever, I couldn't discover how this was
achieved, and can only conclude
either that the claim is misleadrng or
the manuaJ is incomplete.

The only way to avoid text print-
ing on top of a graphic is to set the
margin marker by dragging it to the
edge of the picture, and this is hardly "
a text wrapping facility.

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Words with

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apparently been borrowed from
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others are new to packages in this
price range.

QuarkXPress it'afnt

New Horizons quite rightfy avoided
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However, programs with fe^^er DTP-
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newsletters.

Support for multfple cofumns and
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to rmport text into a document
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have to open h as another docu-
ment, then cut and paste it in fic^m
there. It's the program approach to
colour printers, however, which gives
it an edge in the p^ge production
stakes,

M

True WYSIWYG

instead of trying to cope wrth full-
colour graphics on screen, which at
first glance would have been a big
selfmg point, ProWrite concentrates
on the use of the same eight colours
which the average colour dot matrix
printer, such as the LCI 0, usk when
it tries to reproduce a screen mage.

In this way, ProWrite offers true
WVSIWYC, because when you import
a graphic for use in your document.
It is converted into a dithered image
made up of the eight colours, and
should be a very accurate representa-
tichn of what you will see on paper.
The spell checker suffers from the
same problems as the one used on
Quick Write in that a whole docu-
ment is checked from start to finish,
one word at a time, and there is no

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alphabetical order. The process is
therefore a good deal slower than
that used by Protext.

As if to make up for the substan-
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The word list could perhaps be a
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The beginner will find this option
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macros for the benefit of mortals In
an office environment, however, any
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The Amiga hai afways been a
machine Iq which users
have added extra bit5, and
^3 far as quality peripherafs are con-
cefrtEd, Ehey have been fortunate in
the a^ailabl^ choice. Smce the Amiga
began to lake off in a big way back
in !388. third party manufacturers
have been lining up to launch every-
thing from hard drives to digftizeri,
and U.S company LCD has often
been at the head of the queue.

The company will be familiar to
rriost A2000 owners^ whq have been
enjoying the company's add-on i for
Ehat machi^ne for some time, A500
users, however, have had to content
themselves with I CD's 6 Mb trap-
doof-mounted AdRAJ^ board.

Sales of this unit have suffered in
the price w^r becayse, although of a
high quatity, it is a bt more expen-
sive than the popular 1.5Mb boards,
ICD Jiow (ooJ<s set to make a push

Stevie Kennedy
checks out the lat-
est kit from state-
side peripherals
wizards, ICD, and
discovers techie
heaven

into the AS 00 market with it$ three
most re-cent launches - AdSpeed,
AdfDE, and Flicker free Video - aJI of
which are aimed at the serk)us and
hobbyist user, and all of which are
attempts to solve a particuiar prab-
lem. The approach is unimaginative -
but purposeful and promises to
bring success, if only on technical
merit.

Storage

Not as much of a problem as it
might have been two year^ ago, the
A500's storage needs have been met
by progreisively bigger and cheaper
hard drives as the market h€S
e;<panded. The drives we've seen,
such as the AS9Q and the CVP unil^
have been getting faster, but most

Fast and

fulsome
flickers

have remained eyesores sticking out
the side of the Amiga and eating up
valuable desk space.

Owners of A2D00s or AT50Qs
have a much neater time of it
because their target machines can
support hard drives internally on
card slots, but the A500 has not had
thJs option until recently.

The advance of miniaturisation
brought about by the boon> in the
portable computer market has oow
made it possible to fit hrtherto large
amoijnts of storage into a very small
space, and one result is the AdIDE
interface and 20Mb hard drive.
The ICD unit is neat, small, and
ncredi-bly cute, byt fof the life of
me I can't figure out who would
want one. it fits quite easily into
the Amiga s case. It will autc^boot
with reasonable access time and
can kfck up a bit of dust when
pressed, but the whoie ensemble
smacks of a very desirable tech-
nical answer to a problem no
Amiga 500 owner has yet
asked.

The ICD engineers have
managed to bring a 20Mb
hard drive with a respectable
25ms access ti^me to ASOO
owners, in a space that is
about one tenth the volume
of the A5M - the drive will
literally fit m a cigarette
packet ■ but the ICD mar-
keting peopte appear to
have identifred a market of very
small proportions.

For those Sn need of an Amfga
500 hard drive setup that is more
portable than other combrnations,
and those whose desk space is
extremely scarce, the AdIDE and
hard drive is a trmely offering. At a
retail of £387, however, AdIDE is
considerably more expensive than
the A590 which, while being a little
slower and a lot uglrer^ is still a solid
alternative, and one which offers
RAM expansion possibilities.

Speed

Speed! The word is on everyone's
lips these days, as if life itself depend^

ed on addiFfg MIPS to your micro. It
has almost become perceived wis-
dom that the standard Amiga - the
one the shop assistant told you was
extremely powerfur - is past it as far
as advanced applications go.

First of an, it has to be said that
the 'perceived wisdom' is an^ant non-
sense. The Amiga's 68000 processor

Amiga Computing 67

Hardware

h a perfectly good piece of silicon for
the tasks to which the home user
puts it. Where il'i speed limitations
show up are In areas for which the
Amiga was r}ever designed, snd In
which It has always looked a bit
pedestrian.

AdSpeed, at £173 (including new
rate of VAT), h the cheapest accelera-
tor so far released, but is also the one

with the lowest specification. It con-
sists of a 68000 processor exactly like
the Amiga's processor except it is
rated at 14.33MHz, twice the doclc
ipeed of the original and an on-
board 'memory cache' which speeds
up routine processor tasks.

The chip'5 clock speed is nothing
new. Faster-than-normal 68Q00s
have been available for a while, but

they have been, impractical for gen-
eral use because speed is a more
complej< matter than bare rate of
knots.

The Amiga system is designed to
run with ^ processor at 7.16MHZr
and if another speed is used without
technical ffxes, timings will be out of
order, memory accesses will be out
of sync, ^nd all communications

between the fast CPU and the slower

custom chips will toe put at risk.

Switching in style

To rule out as many compatibility
problems as ipossible, AdSpeed has a
'fallback' mode, controllable through
both hardware and software. A
jumper setting on the board itielf

Dodgy Displays

The Amiga has one particularly

anrtoying drawback that is con-
stantly being thrown in the faces of
its users when In hot dispute with
Mac and ST aficionados. Quite sim-
ply, the standard non-interlaced
Workbench screen modes are msuf-
ficient for high^end professional
uses sudi as CAD and DTP.

The Amiga user can partly deflect
such criticism by reminding his or
her Mac-loving chum that with
hfHeiiace, the Amiga can double the
number of horizontal lines in its dis*
play, and achieve a very hr-res dis-
play.

Unfortunately, if the user ha^ no
ffickef fixer, those irritating
Macophiies usually have the last
laugh when they realise how
abysmally pjinful it c^n be to oper-
ate an Amiga in flickering interiace.
Tills is where the flicker fixer comes
In.

iCD's is one of the few flicker fl^-
er% available, and the first which will
fit inside an ASOO, To fit it, you must
remove the Oenise display chip,
mount it on the Nicker fi?(er board,
then plug the bo^rd itself into the
vacant slot in much the ^me way
as the Ad Speed plugs into the
68000 socket.

l-t means that fitting FJicker Free
Video wijl invalidate your warranty,
but this is a far more inviting option
than permanent eye damage, the
inevitable result of using interlace
for any tength of time. On the plus
side the b&afd gives a rock-steady
display, and once fitted shoutd be
transparent to the user.

Cathode cardiaci

It ts at this point the user discovers
the overheads invloved in Flicker
Free Video or any other flicker fi?ter,
and the shock can be quite chilfing.
A decent multisync monitor, with-
out which the card is useless, can
cost up to £600, and there's no way
of getting round the necessity of

68 Amiga Computing

buying one.

Even if you manage to find one
of the discounted models in ou^r ads
(and there are some to be foynd),
the total cost of Flicker Free Video
and monitor could quite easily top
the half thousand mark. Power

Computing are offering a bundled
package of card plus NEC monitor
for £510, but even with this dis-
count the user will still have to blow
a large hole in his or her bank bal-
ance.

The semi-professional or corpo-

rate user should find the price tag a
(ittle more comfortable, but eveti
then it raises the price of a OTP-
capabie Amiga system to levels al
which it would stmggle to compete
against the tow-end Macs and
386SX Ks

Flkker Fr«e Video gl'^^s i rock steady dispi^, nud
enc« nttted sliould be lTanipaF«nl to iSe UKr

Why does It flicker?

A ^^tandard Amiga screen mode is output to a monitoc
or TV whose horizontal scan frequency (i.e the num-
ber d times the scanning beam traverses the screen in
one second) is 15.7SKHz, and 50 Hz vertical ly^ This
gives the standard 256 pixels high PAL screen,

When this no longer suffices, the screen must be
'interlaced ' so that one full screen of scan lines is pfC3-
duced every cyde, and another is shown half a scan
line further down on the next scan. This produces a
high frequency flicker because the two are never on

the screen at the same time.

Flicker fijcers work by taking the two signals and
combining them into one steady display. As this is

impossible at the original scan frequency, flicker fixers
rnust produce their output a twice the frequency, or
31.5Khf.

Unfortunately, the standard Amiga m^jnitor will not
'sync up' to this frequency, so an e^tpensive high-quali-
ty mulliscan monitor must be purchased to make use
of the flicker fixer.

Hardware

iJelermines which mode of opfratian

{JIAHi or 14MHz) the board will
boot up io, ^nd a small program
whkh yON can run in Ihe back-
ground from your startup-sequence
allows the user to switch between
the tkVO without havmg to re-baot

This Is more useful than many
bMrd$, whose fallback modes intur
& re-bopt as the CPU used is
twitched from (for example) a 6B030
to the 68000. As AdSpeed uses the
same processor for both speed
modes, it h easier to switch speeds,
and as even at the faster speed it
uies exactly the same instjuction set
ai a standard 66000, software
incompatibrfity is almost non-exis-
tent. I:f you find any prabfiem soft-
ware let us know!

The 32k on-board memory c^che
is wtiat gives AdSpeed its bite. The
technique of mounting a small
amount of high speed RAM qn the
processor chip, and dedicating it to
the moit time-efficient Usks haE
been used in 68020 and 68030 chips
before now, but this is the first lime
it tias been used on a cheaper
replacement 68000.

Basically, 32k of RAM is set a^ide
a5 a data/instruction cache to hold
cgmmon code loops and machine
c(xlg instmctions so that they car> be
accessed by programs in the shortest
pOiiible time. At 14.33MHz,
AdSpeed can just dump things into
the cache memory instead of having
to wait for memory accesses or other
chips to catch up, and can then get
ofi with something dse.

DIY go-faster

For the new Amiga owner with a
morbid fear of technical activities

(let's not be shy - that'j a higti per-
centage of us!}^ AdSpeed is unfortu-
nately one of those products which
invalidates the machine's warranty.
Td fk it, the case must be opened
aiKl the original 68000 chip levered
out of its socket, an ^dea which some
of yau might not be too keen on,
but one which you'll have to live
with i-f you want to upgrade your
Amiga,

Installation is otherwise a simple
matter, and the card behaves '^^fy
well or>ce it's in situ. As a no-fuss no-
fiills accelerator, AdSpeed works very
smooth ly and weVe so far failed to
find a single piece of software which
doesn't like the 1 4M-Hz mode.

tf it was selling for £50 less than
its present retail price, AdSpeed

AdSpeed uses exactly the s.ame IniktriiCtldri vri ai m itjindard
6S,000, ID i{>ftwarc! Incompatibility K AJmqst no«i-4Xi$t«nt

wouid be an unmissable buy for the
speed-hungry hobbyist. As is stands,
however, it falls short or Blue Chip
status on vaiue-for-money terms, but
only just.

Hard Error!

Unfortunately, there are two hard
drive set-ups which don't entirely
work with AdSpeed.

When you use a GVP drive that
has extra memory on-board^ it
makes DMA (Direct Memory Access)
calls to its own memory without
tefling AdSpeed, thus renderfng the
cache contents out of date. The
problem only occurs when you use
both the drive and the e;<tra RAM,
and GVP has promised to rectify the
problem with a ROM upgrade.

Users of Xetec hard drives will also
encounter problems because the

auto- boot sequence on these drives
does not work properly when used
with an accelerated processor Again,
this problem will eventually disap-
pear when Xetex upgrade their soft-
ware^ and the user can always
auto-boot in 7MHz mode before
switching to 14MHz.

Overall, compatibility with hard-
ware and software is as good as
could be expected, though users of
either of the above systems might
want to ihmk twice about processor
accelerators.

Conclusion

ICD has attacked two very real
problems in the shape of speed and
display enhancement, and one
rather ethereal concern with ASOQ
irtternal hard drive storage. Their
solutions are of a quality and level of

A quart into a pint pot

Vou can now fit a wide range ot
peripherals into the ASOO's casing,
but there is only so much room in
there, and a targe proportion of
the peripherals are competing for
the same living space.

The 68000 slot is currently the
place to be in a 500, with acceler-
ator cards vying with hard drive
interfaces for the prime spot of
real estate. The various bits of
hardware, however, do not have
to compete directly to cause a
clash.

We found, for exampfe, that

neither of Ehe large accelerator

boards examined in our April issue
would fit into an A^OO which con-
tained an ICD AdRAM board
bec^u^ the board connected over
the Gary chap got in the way Such
restrictions on space serve only to
highlight the fact that cramming
peripherals into a 500 is mainly a
Crisis measure for those who
would like to upgrade to a 150Q
or 2000 but can't afford to get
the cash together, or those who
love expensive and very clever
toys.

technical competence to raise them
above the products of many other
companies, and all work very well m
their own right.

As consumer products, which is
how they must be fudged, the
AdSpeed is the most desfrable, with
the flicker fiscer coming second by a
Few lengths and the internal hard
drive struggling along at the back. I
suspect the Mrst two will succeed,
especially AdSpeed, but I woyld be
surprised if too many punters were
to be found in the act of lumping
summersaults over the hard drive.

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ihe mid-SO^r What do€i the

There are constani changes. As a

matter of fact there is a new
chfcp set for the Amigs we've
been working on now, I guess,
for almost two years that should
beready thiifall.
And what will that provide? A bet-
ter phtform for the graphic?
More king on the cake, More
colours, more chip RAM and
that sort of thing.., Vou have to
stay with the 5tate of the art.
So ihQl'i ihe direction you're tak-
ing. Yoii*re trying to poiftfon the
Amiga for wh^n muftimedia retj%
takes off?

Amiga covers the full range.
We'll give the consumer mulli-
media in the CDTV and the pro-
fessionals or the offices - most
offices and schoois and every-
body eise - are going more and
in ore towards interactive^ tnje
multimedia piatform.
How is it setling in the business
or&a at the mament? Have you
modemony sfl/es?
Very much sol It's penetrated
the market (which) so far is
rather smail, but you take North
America where we're not a
major factor like we are in
Germany. But if you take certain
imaii markets... NASA uses
Amiga, The Berkley Linear
Actelerator, adverti^sing agen-
cies, TV studios, graphic artists...
they're ali using Amigas.
And the v/c/eo toaster..
The video toaster enhances th^t
once again.

So it's going for the ieoding edge
ntarkel?

PeopJe who, instead of paying
1100,000 to do something, can
pay S5000 or S6000 and get the
same performance.
Whi^h they thought wus impossi-
bie fo do.
ExactiyI

Do you foresee kerKir^ the tech-
noiogy? WHi there be Amiga
dones?

\ don't think we are interested in
iicencing the technoiogy for
computers. We might be inter-
ested in licencing the CDTV piat-
fomi.

fl: But not the Amiga iiseif? Third
porty or something?

IC; I don't think so. I never iike to
use the word never...

til Presumobty rhof's because you
want to keep the Amiga in^house.

sia^^

IG:

IC:

IG;

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deve/op ff the r^^^^"^

way you G^^
wanl 10 de^e/- ^^]
op it.

nice to have r>^^^j^{ vv^

iomebody else

support the same

pbtform? Muke it o

more "sen'oys'

mochine?

Yes, but it aii depends

who your partner \$\ It is becofn-

ing a serious machine.

Computers are only so!d for

.dari

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tbe

what they'll do for
you. Otherwise

they're just a door
stop. And that
me^ns^ the appli-
cations and the
software. S Xt
you have to
marry the two
together. To
do a certain type
of softvvare you have tO ha^^e a
pl^tfomn of that power and the
capability. That's what makes
CDTV what it is because there is
no other platform, no other

technology outside of the Amiga
that you can do this with at a
consumer price.

Q Off the iheiff and you don\ need
e^itra hordware...

IC: And that box - we're not telHng
anybody, but it's a full computer
in there. There are many periph-
erals that wiil be coming for that
machine that wiil astound you.

Q: How do you see the CDTV devei-
opir}g? Whot*s iti nestt stage?

Ki (Shrugs his shoulders fcmpiying
'"anywhefe") Well, first of all the
next stage will be full motion
video.

Going for
Gould

What does Commodore
have up its sleeve for
the future? How will
It meet the chal-
lenge of Europe in
1992? What hopes
does it have
pinned on the
new CDTV?
Donald Maple
went straight to the
top and asked Irving
Gould, Chairman of
Commodore International

erview

a:

When wQuid yoi^ a^tidpale that?
LeS me make this statement.
They're sliLI trying to decide on
the standard.
Whenever they
s^t the stan-
dards we'll be
there.
Are yots going lo

Kt

Cciifd on the CDTV;

m (flam wrong
u^Dvuhi^iof about CDTVmn

are van QomQ fo -•^ ^ r t* j ^

consumer item it

i^ still the greatest
educational tool
thafs ever been

invented

IG:

yau gomg
dev^hp your
own?

No, they're
talking the
JPEG stan-
dards. And as
soon as JPEC
is resolved I
can tell you
that we will
either be the
first or one of
the tint,

il'i nat fiv^ art paper yet, is k?
It's getting close, But close
doesn't count. Only in horae*
shoes and hand grenades...
(Laughter)

What kind of mafkel do yon j^
/or CD TV? Who wiiJ buy thai?
The consumer]
Average conaufi^r? Domeitk?
Wouldn't it be fun, instead of
having ferky motidfl, to have full
motion. If you get the proper
compression techniques you can
do actual movies.
Would that be at an occessfb/f

It has to bel Otherwise you're
not gonna get the volumes. And
you know we're in an industry..,
unfortunately prices never go
up, they only go down. So you
wann-a talk CDTV today and look
two yeafs out, you're not gonna
see it as high as it is today.
That's the nature of our busi-
ness.

Abotil ae two f king. You an-
nounced a special division iost
yem...

You need specialists. That's a
highly specialised area. It's been
implemented to a much greater
degree today. We do have a net-
working specialist division that
we've set up in Denmark that
handles our RScC.
About iSM. When Commodore
deuded to fir^^e PC ^ompQtibk^
ft r^olfybii^g^ me...
Whether we like it or not, or
whether it's the best or worst
machine in the world, you c^n
decide yoursetf, I have my own

74 Amiga Computing

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IG:

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IG:

Q;

IG:

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Opinion... But, you can't fight
Crty Hall... Most businesses
throughout the world today
h^ve accepted MS-dos
wkh al9 its
dreariness
and every-
thing else...
You can't
chsnge that...
rm the first
one to admit.
If Commodore
had been on
the ball the
M S - d s
wouldn't be. It
would have
been the PET
standard. We
were the first.,.
We goofed...
Q: Lost year, aft.ef
hearing how import^jnt Europe ii
tor Commodore, i mked facetioui-
ly: When are yQU moving to
Europe? Tffl asking il iertousiy
now. Don*t you think it wouid be
wise to have ^om^ sort of fl&D
bo^e here in Europe as weil as in
[he States to reflect the actual
number of mers thai you have
here?
IG: Welt WE l^^ve always had some
RhD development in
Braunschweig {Germany) and
we will continue to do it.
Q: Even though f five in Europe f'/n

Q^uuSty a Canadian., ^
IG: So am I)
Q: Are you reatly?
IC: Of course! Canadian passport.
q OhlAConnu^kf
IG: '^Oui"!
Q; (n terms of f 992 it would be very

IC:

advantageous fo ha\fe same sort
of officioi k&D project here.,.
We do! We've constantly had a
group of engineers in
Braunschweig married with our
American (engineers) and we
give them certain tasks. We
intend lo keep that.
Especiaiiy in terms of }992. You
must be awore of that?
We arej That's why we're build-
ing the new facility.

d; ThQti i:eflniniy good news since
then youH be considered a tocal
company?

IC: Commodore has always in
Germany been coniidered a
local company,

4// AmigQi sold in Europe ore
octud/y made in Brotimchweig. A
tof of people don'l know ihati

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Lyouhaveto
'at*, leading

edge and

aonna get ^^■
It's not being a
/olloa^Ht's being

a leader ^

We haven't used everything said by Gould in ^
the interview, because we wanted to concen-
trate on what we h^lteve our readers will find the most intereslincj
parts. However, we limpLy coMldn't resist using the rollc^wjng
Could quotations:

' . CDTV is television that you control, not letevivton that controls

"...ail you nped to use CDTV is its hand-held remote tonlrol".

"The Afniga for the first time allows (multimedia) at a reasonable
price and that's the exciting part. CD-ROM prior to this time was
primarily a database."

"It's always been my goal to develop ^ product that fs powerful
and exciting but accessible to people like me who find it difficult
to use a computer CDTV is the answer."

IC: When you use the word "make

you have to use it lodiely.
Q; What lart a/ cojr^fiy do you see
Commodore being in five years
time?
IC; At my age? I don't know!
{Hilarious laughter all around)
You tell me! I think we are on to
a great thing. Even the CDTV, I
Dlw^y^ (aid that if I gamble i
always like to have one card
bent (more laughter). What i
mean by that is I like a bit of an
edge,

If for any reason - and I don t
think ( am - but if I am wmrsg
about CDTV as a i!onsumer iterri
it kS still the greatest educations i
tool that's ever been invented.
That I'm sure of. It is the great-
est governmental toof and cor-
porate tool. Someone asked
what you can do with a repAi?"
manual. Vou can have the pic-
tures. It's a real "how to".

It is a 1^0 the greatest "point of
sale" piece of equipment ever
invented. Ejtperiments have
been gojng on right now in
Toronto, with Canadian Tyre.
They couldn't wait for the
CDTV so they've been using
the Amiga knowing that
CDTV is coming. But you
put a touch screen on this
and you do anything you
want.
That^s amazing consider-
ing the type of people who
go 10 a itore like
Canadian Tyre. They of^
not iechnicalSy minded
at all
IC:They have it in the
sporting goods
department. It'll
demonstrate the
equipment, it will show it... It's a
saJesman! It's got the sounds, it's
got the pictures...

A major US corporation that'i
also rn the retail - they brought
their chairman over to look at it.
They wanted very badly to sell
at the r^t^il level but they v^ant-
ed it mternally for what it coLild
do for them. So, you're just see^
ing the beginning of something
here.

And we're gonna have con>
petitory. We're not in this world
all by ourselves.

But you have to be at the
leading edge ma that's where
Commodore is gonrta get back.
It's not being a follower it's
being a leader!

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Our completely configured ver-
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much, mofie.

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whkh in turn perform miraculous
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disk can only dream about.

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requirements for most users is not
the transferring of files from disk to
disk, but rather to simply examine
what's on them. This is sometimes
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aid of StD you can examine the con-
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run, view, or hear the contents as
required.

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give absolutely no Indication as to
wKat they may be. To find out what
jfOu're dealing with clicl the Seft
mouse button with ttie pointer at the
very bottom of the screen. This
opens up a whole range of previous-
ly hidden options which imake prob-
ing the hidden depths of your disks
simp^.

As you can see there's a complete

The Workstation is an easy-to-use

replacement for Workbench. In the

first of several support articles,

Paul Austin explains how to start

making use of an invaluable friend

set of options for each device. Size is

Ehe first option and the one most
often used, being the format" in
which StD initially appears, SiJte for
obvious reasons is the most conve-
nient display vyheri transfening files
from disk to disk.

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option which details when the

file was added to the disk.
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same files on various disks. It's worth
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time, so tbec-J? the internal clock is
correct before saving files which may
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useful
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den tal-
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BITS option
you can set the flags for
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writable, hidden, protected and so
on.

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file simply hightight it and click on
the protect icon in the control panel.

Menus just waiting for the rigfft mouse

AS well as the hidden extras at the bottom of the screen
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the right click on your furless fFtend, Move the pointer
to the top of the screen and click on the RMB. This
highlights a selection of puH downs. Most of K\w options
are obvious, giving various alternatives for SID's infor-
mation display.

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system menu which gives access to other ut^lit^K and
areas within the Workstation, CLIr preferences and so
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is FIT. This calculates if the fiSes highlighted will actually
fit into the available space on the destination disk -
great for reducing wasted time and Valium depen^dency.

VVeli I'm afraid that'$ about all that space will allow
for this month, but SID will be further explored in future
support columns so watch this space. When you've firv
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elide on the SHRINK icon on the top right and SID will
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Until next months bye for now.., J^

This brings up a requester displaying

the flag options used with that file.
For example^ by altering the flags
you could hide a file or directoiy
from prying eyes, or periiaps protect
It from accidental deletion. There-"s a
whole range of options which can be
applied to files and the BITS option
gives a full description of each file
and directofy*5 current state.

The NOTE option is another aid to
organising your fites. It allows you to
read comments whkh have been
appended to either a file or diirecto^.
This is handy if you use files with
onty numeric at differences - Pad,
Pic. 2 for example. When you Mm
add files using this fonriat it's t^y to
rememtier which is which, but come
back a day later and you won't have
a due. At this point the only option
is to view file by file until yCHJ find
the one you're after, yawn...

This Is where SID's COMMENT
and NOTE facilities come into their
own. Whenever you need to add a
few essential words dick on the fite
followed by SID's COMiMENT icon
and type away.

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on I3ie way in which it's treated by
other programs, but it does make il
instantly recognisable when viewed
using the note option.

Last in the list comes the DESC
option. This is perhaps the most use-
ful of ali the available display for-
mats. It gives a description of each
file in the current directory list -
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file, executable f^le, an ASCII file and
so on.

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pictures you know are In there some-
where. Of course I'm not trying to
suggest you good people would
poke around pinching other peoples
juicy bits. Of course you vrouidnl,
• if yoy haven't already got a
copy of Workstation, see Page 70
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it will certainly raise a smile. For
example in the hints and tips section
ycHjil find such classics as a tip about
chips, not as you mfght expect a
guide to upgrades but rather the
solution to the pressing problem of
portion control with the vegetable
variety,

Newsflash

In defence of Seventeen Bit th^i^ do
have an alternative ^^^^^^
publication under the
banner of Newsflash.
This i5 a very different
bag of chips aimed at
A much more serious
side of the Amiga
market. It has a far
more professional
approach and tends
to deal more in utili-
ties than icrolly
demos. The editorial
reflects the general

Our cheap and cheerful PD person Paul Austin
points his finger at the plastic press

theme of user rather than watcher,
so ff you^'re that way Inclined give it a
look. Both mags are available from
Seventeen Bit on 0924 366982.

Jumpdjsk

Jumpdisk is the old m.^n of the flop-
py press, b&ing the first publication
to cait oft the chains of paper and
printer and swap to the delights of
the disk.

The 58th issue is due to hit the
streets at any moment, easily making
it the grand old man on the A^miga.
The disk is an American publication
which boaists the biggest distribution
in the states.

With such an enviable pedigree,
not to mention circulation, it's obvi-
ous that the product isn't going to
be duff and of course it isn't. It has a
nice selection of uttlities and editorial

mmi

(jxMMimM ^suxm

'The Independents from CTS

Through a mixture of fate, confusion and sheer bad lyck the PD colufnn
and George Thompson Servicer, one this coyniry's biggest and best
libraries, have been passing by each other without even as much as a
nod in the recent past«

Fortunately this month the run of bad luck has come to an end and
as a result I'll be featohng some of the excellent offerings from one of
the longest established tibraries in the business.

One of the strongest aspects of their business ^s the eKclusive rights to
release two of the best plastic nmags in the busirmss^ both of which are
independent offerings from the opposite sides of the wonid.

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and the occasional special additions

with the odd silly bit thrown in for
good measure.

As well as the mag itsetf there's a
supplemental disk full of material
offered with each issue. Each copy
comes in ifs own tittle bag with a
simple instruction sheet detailing
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generally an excellent product that's
well worth a closer look.

MegadJsc

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This is the second mag in the CT5

stable and in my humble opinion
quite simply the best plastic mag in
the business. The software is excel-
lent and the editorial is easi^ly on a
par. The disk like many things in the
British media is an Antipodean
import that's more of a bJockbusier

as opposed to soap opera we're all
too fa mi liar with.

The Australian influence on the
Amiga world has been rather limited
to dat? but if this is a typical eKam-
ple of what's on offer there could be
some serious pommie bashing in the
near future.

The real strength of the disk lies
within its structure which leans much
more in the direction of a tjue maga-
zine than many of its rivals. Most
disk mags find it very difficult to walk
the fine line between being a maga-
zine and becoming yet another PD
compilation disk. Megadisc does
exactly that by Striking just the right
mix between the two.

A particularly pleasant feature is a
section devoted entirely to hardware
applications and how to tweak and
solder your way to a perfect system.

The editorial section is ftjil of inter-

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^tiog reviews and tnformati-on on all
manner of popular Amiga applita-
Eions. As you can tell Tm impres^sed
and you're sure to be ihe same.

For further details on both mags
get in touch with C^rg€ Thompson
Services on 077 082 212 or Fax 077
082 212.

PD for the

little people

OK, that's enough back slapping, ffs
time tQ mount up and get bdck to
get bick to my moral crusade from
earlier in the column. If you've got
lids you II be well used to the *ran /
hQ\^€ a go, please fel me fry, yo^ jcaW /
couW syndrome. This is a common
complaint that mosi: computerised
parents suffer every Efme they turn
on the machine,

Even the toughest parental tyrant
cracks eventually and will hand over
the apple off their eye to the frant^
cally keen kid. 3f you're a PD parent
this can be a risky business. Some of
the software available is definitely
not suitable for the smaller kids in
the family.

A5 a result an alternative collection
IS required and that's exactly wtiat
the Chaps at A Bit on The Side have
come up with.

The Junior PD Club

If you're looking for matedal and you
vvart to be sure It's clean. The Juntor
PD Club could be the answer

The title may give slightly the
wrong impression about the con-
tents. The material is suitable for kids
but not necessary aimed at them.

The dub guarantees the material
to be clean rather than condescend-
ing, A fine e.xampie of this is a classic
sample disk containing immortals
lifce Popeye meetilh^ Bead} boys.

To be honest the collection Fsn't
that origln-al as far a.s contents are
concemedx with most of the material

Incredible! Eight trades for IVIED

The amaiing Teijo Kinnunen dqe^ the impp-ss-ible yet
again and comes up with tihe next great step for the
monster he's created.

OctaMED has arrived and somehow he's managed
to make it fulty tompatibJe with its preciece5SJor5r The
new versioF^ wtll happily t^ke on either eight or four
track tharacterisUts on deftiand.

The new version [snl PD but considering the great
things Teijo has done for the domain in the pas^t it's
onf^ fair to give the guy a well deserved ptug for hii
first commercial offering. Ifs available for the patheti-
caiiy smali sum of £10 within Europe and £15 worid-
wide and this includes post and packaging.

Tlie new version has aii of the abilities of our recent
coverdisk grveaway plus the extra four tracks and a
new and improved bug free Med player. As I men-
Uoned eafiler Med has become a real monster and as a
result the new version has a hard time squeezing into
the straight jacket of 51 2k.

being available frgm almost any-
where.

The real advantage comes with
the sure and certain knowledge that
the fruit of your loins l$nX going to
be subjected to sc roily demos that
give graphic instructions on where
e^^actly other coding teams should
put their latest release.

No bare breasts, no sexy stereo-
typeSn or at least not that many, and
every new member gets a badge and
a Biro to pose with in the play-
ground, if you're interested you can
contact A Bit on The Side on 0302
&87332,

Uncle AMOS

An alternative for the PD parent

could be the offerings of the Amos
library. The AMOS library doesn't
claim to be squeaky clean but any-
one who's used any AMOS material
will be familiar with its very smooth
and friendly front end whSch makes
it ideal for children.
This particular talent has already
been spotted by most
Amos authors and as a
result there's a huge
range of material aimed
speciflcaify at the kids.

There is a
smali price to be paid
for the smooth and
stylish Amos approach
to PD and that's its ten-
dency to only offer one
program on a disk, so
compared to other com-
pilation disks it can work

As a result Teijo has added a low res option to
which it vAW be automaticaiiy defaylted when it's ru^
on a half meg rp^hin^^ ^|

Amiga nuts United hold all distribution rights for
OctaMED and as a result Ray Burt Frost, one on the
/Riga's finest nutters, has thrown down the gaundel
to the coding community and is offering a tuli licence-
ware agreement to the first person to create a conver-
sion program which will transfer tunes from the four
to the eight track fonnat. jH

If you're an AMOS expert there couW be a separiite
licenceware goidmine waiting for the first person to
provide an AMOS compatible MED player. To add th€
final Jcing to the caite of QctaMED a manual will soon
be available to make life a I ittie easter for owners of tt^_
eight tfack version d Teijo's masterpiece. ^|

OctaMED is available e^cEusiveiy from AmIgpnuts
United. For further detaH^ contact Ray lurt Frost on
0703 785680. _^

out a little eKpensive.

Most of the larger libraries cany
an ever growing supply of AMOS.
The very best material tends to be
lice nee ware availabie through PCS
Interr^atlonal on 0942 521 577 or
alternatively from Amiganu-ts United
on 0703 785680

Classy compilations

While Tm still holding the siiovel I
might as well heap a little more
praise on the already overburden^
CTS.

Ai well as the Series of mags sup-
plied GTS also sent an excelient col*
leaion of compilation packs varying
from utiiities to games.

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GUIDE

Variati
onath

Stevie Kennedy finds out CLI can
be environment-friendly

As last month's focus on
script files demonstrated,
Amiga DOS ts a sufprising-
ly flexible IdoI when used as 9 crude

programming language. The Auto-
Script file on May's coverdlslt was an
attempt to show users a littJe of tJhe
system's potential to cut out a lot of
routine drudgery, but it was left
intentionally deficient in its use of
variables-

This month's column shoold give
users a basic appreciation of how to
use variables in their uwn Amig^OQS
scripts, and will show how even a
simple application such as Auto-
Script can in thi^ way be given a new
lease of life.

With Amiga DOS, we cin separate

variables into two groups - parame-
ters and environment variables. A
parameter is a value which is passed
to a script file by the user when he or
she EXECUTES it^ and is nowhere
near as flexible as a true variable.

Environment variables^ on the
other hand, are a bit more complex,
much more fiexibfe, and will be
introduced in the second half of this
tutorial.

Let's took again at Auto-Script, (t is
a script file whicfi formats a disk in
your extra drive, creates ttie essential
directories, then copies the relevant
system files across to make a system
did( which will auto-boot.

For the sake of simplicity, the
script a.ssunne^ tKat the second drive

r

]F ^var1> El "

EClO -HO dr^tt s^etiflir

SKlf ind

ENIIF

m end

is called dfl : which is the case for the
vast majority of AS 00 and A 1500
users. There are many A20O0 own-
ers, however, whose external drives
are labelled dfZ: because on these
machines onty internaify mounted
es^tra drives can be called dfl:. Such
users would have found Auto-5cript
usdess in its original fofm.

Parameter Paradise

With the use of a simple parametefr
this soft of problem could be avoid-
ed with ease. Take a look at
Exainplel, a script which carries out
a directory listing of dfl:. As it
standSr it is a pointless script because
It does nothing you couldn't do
quicker and easier from CLI. Now
take a look at Example2:

Although this is still less than ose-
ful, i^t shows how a script cart be

«n

E^mpl« 2

changed quickly and easily to accept
parameters. To run Examplel^ you
would type

OFGlfTE EUHPLEI ^ltErUM>

but to run ExtmpleZ, this would

become

EXECUTE ItmiU <drivt> <mUU>

where <drive> is the parameter
looked for by the script. The scriipt
knows it should expect to be passed
a parameter because the first line
defines a "key"'.

The key should always be the fifst
line in a script and should always
start with a period (or dot) and the
word 'key' followed by the parame-
ters. Iff there is more than one param-
eter, a comm^ is used to separate
them.

Example2 knows, thenefDne, that it

Amigia Ccmiputiiig 85

mujt expect one parameter, and it
will attempi to carry out a directory
lifting rn accordance with the atiing

it receiver. If you type EXECUTE
EXAMPLE2 DFO: the script will accept
the 5trir>3 'dfO.:' as= its parameter and
act accordingly.

ir you d^nt pass a pararneter^ the
IF te5t will detect that varl is the
empty string """ and print 'No drive
specified; then SKIP to the end.

You will have noticed that
AmigaOOS places variables in angled
bfackets when they are b&Jng oper-
ated upon.

This ii necessary simpjy to distin-
guish them as variables and has no
other technical significance. Try not
to confuse them with the angled
brackets we put around the word
RETURN and others in examples of
CLI commands.

Value of variables

If we turn our attention b^ck to
Aulo^Script, it shoiild be easy to see
where improvements can be made.
Instead of all those lines which
refer specifically to dfl:, such as
COPY #? to DFl :c, we ought to have
line J which refer to the parameter
<Yarl >,

These lines would look something
like COPY ^? to <var1>c. When
A2000 users with external second
drives want to u$e the script, they
would thefn type

miun iUTfl-SCHIPT DFZs

^rd AutO'Scrfpt woufd know which
drive was to be used as the target

drive.

As long as you are using
Wodebench 1.3 or higher (and if you
aren't Td advise yoy to upgrade
immediately) you can also test vari-
ables and pararneters using the VAL
condition to Lhe IF test. In Exam|3le2,

ART 3

Aty varl

IF Ul <h>Br1> EQ D

|]R BFD:

SKIP cvid

mu

IF m ,, 1^ ,

m m:

SI[IP tnd-
£NIIf

U^ DF2:
SKIP fiid
EHDIF
Ettig *1l»ne 5

the IF tests ^var1> to see if it is a
blank string, but it would be just as

easy to test its numerical value.

Let's say we wanted to he la^y
when running the script, and Jn^te^d
of typing df T : we wanted to type fust
the number 1 . The result would be
somethfng like Example^, and you
would type

EXECUTE I^ITO'SCIIPT 1

to cany out a DiRof df2v

Defaults

Although, as we have seen, the
default value of a parameter Is an

empty string iF nothing is passed to It
by the EXECLTTE command, it is also
possible to set a default value from

within a script. This is achieved by a
line of the syntax

.[^EF ^virijl»Li> "d«|i|iiLt siring""

and sets the default for that variable
or parameter for all succeeding oper-
ations. In ExampleZ, fcur instance, we

could define the default for var1 as
"No drive specified'' and fix things so
that th<s is printed when no parame-
ters are specified.

Alternatively, you can use a dollar
sign (S) each time you use a variable

Variables: Three Golde

Remeniber the %ey' at the rtait of every script file which k
to have parameters pasied to it It must begin with '^key* and
contain as many entries as there are parameters.

Remember a vaHable can be optional (e.g Varl/k) or com-
pulsory (e,g varl/a). You may need to make a variable com-
pulsory so that drastic things dofi t happen wherr the defaull
value 1 1 taken.

Ahvays include the If™ ASSIGN ENV: RAMi In your startup-
S€f|ii«nce If you intend using environment variables.

Eiwfnpi« 3

ir) order to specify the defauli: value it
should take at different points in a
script. The line

KM -<^ap1 t ] Like ¥iriibl(s>"

tells AmigaDOS that you would fike
the string "I like variables-"' printed if
the script has not been passed a
value for varl. All test inside the

angle brackets to the rrght of the
dollar sign is treated as the default

Options

As a final note on parameters, you
should be aware that they can be

either optional or compulsory
depending en your needs. To make a
parameter essential, you must add
7a' to it in the key line at the begin-
ning of the script, so it would read
■key varl /a.

If a value is not passed to a com-
pulsory parameter, the scnpt wili
grind to a halt with an error message.
This feature would be of most use if,
for ej^ampie, It would cause a prob-
lem when the parameter was given a
nfll value. FORMAT DRIVE DF<var1>:
would cause a bit of concern to mnst
people if it took a default value of
zero and formatted their system disk!

Optional parameters, to which
Amiga DOS defaults, are defined by
thfe adition of 7k' on the key fine, and
can be passed values in the normal
way,

SETENVandGETENV

Environ-ment variables are the trye
AmrgaDOS system variables, and
since the release of Wori^bench IJ,
Amiga users have had an increasing
amount of cor^trol over them.

The two commands f'm going to
Imk at in this brief overview of envi-
ronment variabies are SETENV and
CETENV

SETEMV rs used to create a vari-

86 Amiga Cumputtng

able and/or alter its definition. Il i

takes the syntax [

SETEIll <TartiJitfi> <itrinfl> ,

I

where the string defines the variaJsle.

GET ENV is used to retrieve tht «

variatDfe's value or string and uses the f
syntas

UJm <vir1st>La^

!

It will print the variable's contents i:^
whichevef device the user specifies
wi-th a red r recti on {>} character,

afthough it defaults to the current
CLi window. If^ therefore, you want-
ed to keep a running tally of an I
important varfable in a program, you
could quite easily yse the fine ,

at various points in the listing to redi- |
rect output to the printer.

When you define an environment
variabiCn Amiga DOS looks For a logi-
cai device called ENV; which is usual-
ly set up in your Workbench'^
startup-sequence using the ASSIGN
statement

to store all information concerning
the variable in the FiAM disk. Always
either make sure you have this line in
your startup or type it rn before
messing about with variables.

Environment variables are the big
brothers of the ASSIGN statements
and bring a new flei^ibility to
AmigaDOS,

It's all very well being abPe to
ASSFGN bgicaf device names as long
and complex pathnames, but when
you can use environment variables
for absofutely any string of text, your
scrip! files are in danger of becoming
true programs.

We don't have enough space to
go further into environment variables
in this column^ but if there's enough
interest in the subject, we'll cover
them in more depth at a tater date.
For the moment, we've received
marry more letters requesting infor-
mation on more down to earth areas
of AmigaDOS, so we'll be looking at
them first.

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(t's fair to say MED isn't the
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Th& massive range of abifitjes have
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est additions to its repotorre make
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utiJity in the business, regardless of
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99.999^ F>er cent of you afre^dy
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inclusion on the Amiga Computing
May coverdisk. If you were abducted
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put from a headphone socket and
then adjust the voJume control on
the amp until the signal is just betaw

the distortion or clipping point. With
MED you can monitor the input sig-
nal and adjust ft unOf the waveform
fits perfectly before you sample the
sound.

An Amiga samplers are 8 bit units,
and as a resuft even the best are far
from perfect, so don't worry about
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Most samples tend to be ripped
off from CDs, tapes and so on.

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indeed you did, you

coy id always order a

copy of the December issue

of Amiga Computing, when it
featured on our cover disk. (See
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This was follwed in our |anuary
ard Februiry issues with a series
describing how to get the best from
MED. So check your back issues for
hijTEs and tips for the $c5iindtracker
wtion of the pnjgram which is stUI
the same.

This month I'Ji be concentrating
fln how to get the best fr^m the all-
new sample editor.

Exciting

The editor fs by far the most exerting
addition and it not only gives you
the abifity to manipulate samples
you already have but you can aJso
sample your own sounds. Using Hr^t
generation samples is by far the best
approach. Avoiding repetition in the
music and the sounds is the |<ey to a
ciMsk:.

it's not essential that you go mad
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fit Ihe^lisskaJ ffl^ ^ny i muH •MW bt 1*iiiliar with, b, the b.iikim .,n.- thi^A^ ol !i .>,■. k iami\

Paul Austin takes a closer look

at the latest addition to

Teijo Kinnunen's

incredible music

utility MED!

ed-editor

months. A useful asset of the MED

editor is its ability to add and delete
spacewithin a sample.

High levels of hiss between
sounds often ruiF> an othen^rse excel-
ient sample., Minimpsing this hiss is
what makes samplers Ijke the Audio
Engineer so impressive, not to men-
tion expensive.

Even so with a little patience it's
pos$ible to make even the cheapest
sampler sound a good deal more
expensive, ffrst copy your sample to
the copybuffer or preferably a floppy.
This is al-ways a goad idea if you're
about to do any form of editmg,

Next, marie out a range between
two sounds within the sampfe, but
make sure you leave some space
between the range and the sounds
on either side of it. This space wilf
become important later.

Now ciitk on the CLR gadget A
blank space should appear to replace
the hissing silence of the origfnai.
Repeat this process right through the
sample.

OK, now play the sample. It's

probably better than the original but
the hiss has now been replaced by
annoyjng dkki when each new sec-
tion of the sampfe pJays. The next
job is to smooth the traniition
between the total silence of the new
sections and the sounds themsdves.

Volume change

To do this well use a gradual volume
change to fade the background
noise up and down before and after
each sound. Clfck in the first window
after the VOL CHANCE gadget and
type 1, press return and type 99,
Now click on the ZOOM IN gadget
and scroll up to the beginning of the
first sound usfng the lur^or keys.

This is where the noise feft at the
beginning and end of the separate
sounds come in useful. First mark a
range that includes this section, with
at least the same amount prior to ft.

Now cfpck on the CHANCE VOL
gadget. You should see the differ-
ence between the originaj and the
blank insert decrease. If you repeat-

edly click on CHANGE VOL the dif-
ference between the two will
become increasingly subtle.

Repeat this process at the begirv
ning of each sound in the sample.
When youVe done them all simply
reverse the numbers in the CHANGE
VOL windows and follow exactly the
same procedure at the end of each
Sound.

Now compare the original and
the processed version and the results
should speak for them selves.

Teijo Kinnunen, the author of
MED, obviously took a long hard
look St Audfo Master when designing
the sample edftor. As a result it's very
similar in many respects, boasting
most of its features for a fractbn of
the price.

To be fair the samples produced
with MED aren't bi good as Audio
Master and it is trickier to use, but
considering the edi^tor is only part of
the MED package it^s quite simply
amazing. If you do become addicted
please send some cash to Teifo - he
deserves iL,.

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What should you do

if your Amiga's heart
stops beating?

PaulTWhiteley

tal<es his bedside

manner to a side

machine

THE Amiga 1$ ^ welJ specified
idiosyncratic machine.
Commi[Ktore tjoiight it fr&m
a team of designers wlio Wdnted to
set a standard instead of following
An eKisting one. The Amiga shares rEs
6S000 ^ries main processor with the
Apple Macintosh, Atari ST, the
Sinclair QL and One per Desk
michines,

The main processor chip is wher^
sfmiiarities end. At this point you
enter a different plan-e. The harctware
on the Amiga allows 4096 coiours,

steiieo sound, sampling, MJOl, and a
whole host of features broiight by
the foresight of a dedicated chip set

and open archiliecture,

Tlte 1 000 was the f ir?t Amiga, but
th« majority of machines in the UK
are SOOs. Together with a sprinkling
of 20OO5, a few 15005 and 30QOs
and not forgettmg some interesting
hytfids iike the Chedtmate 1 SOO and
the Bodega Bay-
Wit h such a highly specified and
complicated machine you couid be
forgiven for thinking that there's

nothing user friendly inside. Take
care however and you could learn a
fot about the Amiga ,.,flnd maybe
even save your^ some money.

Guaranteed to annoy

Like all computers and electronic
products, your Ainiga comes with a
stern warning. "Open me up and
kiss your warranty bye bye.*'

If all you want lo do Is piay
games, (which is no bad thing to do)
then leaving your Amiga intact pmb-
aWy won't be any great loss.

But if you want to repai^r or trou-
bleshoot inside the machine, you'll'
have to forget the warranty or wait
untif it's run out.

If the machine is in warranty and
it'i ceased to proceed, it'i probably
the responsibNity of Commodore or,
more (ikely, your friendly computer
dealer to make it work again, if you
are completely silly and are devoid of
a functioning brain cell youll stili rip
your Amiga open anyway However rf
you have problems with i relative^
new machine, get it fixed by the
people responsive!

Preventive medicine

No matter what you do to protect
your Amiga from the rigours of
human foibles there will come the
day when a clumsy iabrador chews
the cables or it meets some other
catastrophe that results in loss Of
function either partial or total.

Although the Amiga is a touQJi
cookie, it wi H m\y take so much. Aiid
while we are talking about repairs
and problems surdy it makes more
sense to treat yoyr computer with
care and fespect.

Do not spill anything near it, or
on it. Remember when you attach a
peripheral of any kind to the
machine, secure alF fastenings. If you
don t you could be gazing at an
invoice.

Those little thumbscrew things
on the printer cabJe are not only for
decoration. They secure the cabie to
the socket, thus makfng it more diffi-
cult for a snagged cable to damage
the socket

The same rule applies for every
cable Of connecter. Peripherals which
attach to the muftiway connector on
the sJde can be a danger so If possi-
We secufe them in such a way that
they cannot move in relation to ^le
work surface.

A simple tip is to place a sheet d

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Feature

wood or simifaf laid flat on the work
suffate. Mark oyt the position that
your machine covers including all
cablei and periphi&rals and attach
batons to the jhf^et. This Hvilf prevent
the machine and its peripherals mov-
ing around in relation to each otiher
Another way of avoiding costly
repair bills \% to make sure that all
cables are Secured in such a way thai
they cannot be snagged.

Make mine a short

One of the commonest problems
with the Amiga or for that matter
any bome computer is live or dead
short circuits caused by strain on
cables.

A dead short is the least harmful
but sometimes the most difficult to
track. This is caused when a table,
wire or track on a printed circuit
board is broken by a sharp tug or
strain.

Nomiaily, the net result is a maU
functioning computer that can be
repaired by re-soldering or tracking.
The live short is more dangerous.
This \% caused in the same way but
instead of a line, wire or cabJe break-
ing, two or more touch together.
Because the circuit remains live, this
can damage other components.

The knock on effect of a live short
is that several components may be
unserviceable. In a bad case a live
$hort can cause sparking and burn-
ing. If this happens, insulate yourself,
and remove the plug from the waN.

By depriving your machine of its
power you have assured that the
damage canrtot continue to get
wor^e.

If your problem is within a moni-
tor ind you intend to open it up and
attempt diagnosis or repair, remem-

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Toolbox

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If you want to do youj

■ own repaid and fault finding youll need these tools.

Pliers

Solder pump or des^iderlng l:H'aid

Screwdrivers

Multlcore cable

t/C insmef-extfacEtrf tool

Wire cutlem/sniippers

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Rcilk of insulating tape

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If you think that ripairs are as important as your Amiga and want the ulti^

mate posing tool for a

technical anorak, you could spend £400 ofi an

osdil-

loscope confident that

no one else vkrould l^now how to use It either.

ber that a monitor an cany a Jot of
'stored' power and even when not
plugged in can give you a shock big
enough to stop your heart. If in
doubt, leave well alone and call a
professional.

Bits and pieces

if your job requires replacement of a
component or an integrated circuit
(chSp)^ a few simple rules ^11 make
the job pass without problem. Worit
with plenty of light so that you can
sec what you're doing.

Always keep plenty of open con-
tainers around for screws and other
bitties to avoid them ending up on
the floor. Get any documentation or
other papenuodc into a place where
you can
easily refer to JL

Prepare snd label the components
ready for replacement. This may
sound a little silly but if youVe tvvo
identical prcK:essors on the table how
do you know which is faulty by bok-
mg?

Do the job one step at a time,
take notes and label everything that
you have sayjng what it is and where
it came from. If <t's possible to frt it in

more than one way as in the case of

an JC, describe its position. An IC
won't work if it's in backwards.

Gone to war

Work wFth the pcemise that you may
be dragged away for a few months.

When you get back you should be
able to refer to your notes and con-
tinue as if you hadn't left.

If there are any bits Jeft when
you've finished (and there will be)
hnd out where they're from and
replace them. Manufacturers worry
loo much about money for any of
those spare screws not to have a use.
They do matter and s.hould be
replaced.

And finally...

Being abfe to work on your machine
can be a u^efyl skill and one to
develop. Know your limitations and
only take on jobs that you can either
finish or ask a friend to supervise you
through, tf you open up your Amiga
whfle there's still warranty, it will be
invalidated. If you start a job and it
gets too muchn bring in a profession-
al. Setter to look a right prat than
wreck a good computer...

Not Too uifficuit

if you're determined to try a few repairs or
upgrades, don't take on a job that s beyond you.
Most importantly, st^rt with simple tasks that can
be checked before you blow up your Amiga,

Leads are ^n ideal initial repafr [ob. You can fabri-
cate or repair a monitor lead and test it without
plugging it in. The important thing with a tead h to
check continuity and be sure that there Are no live
shorts. This can be done (but it's a fiddle) with a
battery and flashlight bulb, a coupJe of wires and a
pair of probes made from a steei needle and a mini
crocodile clip.

Each line on the lead can be checked and cross
checked to be sure of the signal integrity. Another
useful way to Jearn your way around the inside of

your machine is to fft an Fnternal peripheral such as
the Power Computing rnternal A500 bard dove, a
large ir>ternal RAM expansion or the Vortex AT
Or^ce board.

The AT Once is a good example a^ it comes with
Instructions that offer a step by step guide through
the fitting of the boards iltustrated with pho-
tographs.

The process involves opening the machine,
removing keyboard and cover and removing the
central processor and the gate array (CAflV) from
the board. There isn l any soJdering so it's a job that
requires manual dejcterity and a Utile thought but
no potentially destructive processes. Jn the mean-
time happy hunting.

Safety
first

, Although your Amiga usej low
I voltages dori't work with the
. power on. A five short that you
don't know about could kJII yonj. A
read tbnough the coroners reporti
of any town wiil confirm that tots
of dead people knew better.

Get a professional

There's no substitute for kngwl-
ledge. Although you may think
that you can tackle the occasional
job on your machine, it's good to
know that there are services avail-
able that can do the work quickly
and efficiently.

FMG

These are the people Commodore
tnjst with servicing all Amiga's sohJ
in the UK. If your machine goes
"pop" durir>3 the wamanty period
it will end up at their workshop. It
h worth remembering that their
expertise Ij available at a rea.son-
able cost after your warranty

|iexpirej. Commodore trust them,

"so you can too.

Simpio^ni Electronics:

Supplier of parts and components

for the Amiga. The firm will under-
take most jobs and offer help and
advice if you're going to attempt tl
yourseff.

Ladbroke:

Initially an ST specialist, Ladbroke
was quick to notice the potential
of the Amiga and has technical
staff able to undertake all kinds ol
Amiga repairs service and
upgrades.

Tandy:

Chain store specialising in tools

and components. AnnoySngly they

don't ^eem to stock the unusual
2 ID Amrga connectors but they
gen-eraiJy have everything else that
you need.

m *

Maplin:

Catalogue company specialising Ih

electronics. Catalogue on sale Jn
WH Smith for £2. Worth getting
for interesting projects.

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Whefi the Ume comes to
add extra bed to your
Amig^, Ihere are some
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attentiori. Most people saon realise
that an extra half meg of memory
and an eKlemal floppy drive would
be nice. The next stage is normally
to add a better mo^use or a monitor.

So what next? In this conduding
part of "Ejspand and Deliver'" we set
our sights s little further afield and
|nve^Ug«te net wo riling modems,
genlocks, emulators and all those
other bits of kit that people seem to
boy, and then find a u^ for...

Data sharing

Do you feel lonely when you u^e
your Amiga? tf so, then a modem
coukJ be the answer to yoyr dreams.
Macfe famous by such scare-mongef-
ing movies ai 'War Games', the
modem wiiil let you communicate
wvtth other computer users by linking
your machine to the standard tele-
phone network.

Using a modem cost^ monpey, so
It's worth investing in the fastest
modem you can afford, although
you must aJso h« aware that many
on-line systems cannot cope with
certain speeds. Some on-line systems
support 4800 baud modems, bmt the
vast majority won't support anything
faster than a 240O baud modem.

The price of modems has dropped
considerably In the last two years or
so, so getting on-line is not quite as
expensive as you might betleve.
Typically^ a fairly well endowed 2400
baud modem can be picked Up for
around f 180,

Closer to home^ it's also possible
to connect togettier several Amigas
in a network, therefore aliowmg
them to share programs and periph-
erais (hard drives, printers etc). In a
professional envimnment, network-
ing c^n cut the cost of upgrading
several Amigas by a considerable
amount - Instead of having to buy
such things as hard drives for each
machine, you can buy one
large drive (wh^ch usu-
ally works out
cheaper) and
share it
betweer

several machines. Several companies
now produce network systems^
although it's worth checking out alf
the options available before splash-
ing out. As the old ruJe stipulates,
don't buy the first that you see - you
may live to regret it?

Working along the same lirres as a
modem, you can ^Iso set up your
Amiga to send and recer^e facsimile
(fax) messages. Cumentiy two such
systemi exist - Michtron s Fast Fax
and Applied Engineering's Data Link
system. Michtron's product is per-
haps the better of the two, but if fl
set you back £600 (a real faK can be
pjckied up for just £4001).

Vtdeo visuals

Video graphics tre an all-impoftant
aspect of Commodore's ma rise ting
strategy, so it comes as no stJrprise
that the vkko hardware market has
been flooded with innovative prod'
ucts ranging from gen
locki and flicker
fixec cards, to 24
bit frame buffers
which offer near
broadcast qua% dis-
plays.

Genlocking is one
application that really sets
the Amiga apart from its
closest rival For little more
than a £1 00, you can overby
computer graphics onto a com^
posite video source to create
titles and special effects for your
home movies, i won't go into too
much depth about the kind of fea-
tures you should be looking for -
you'JI find these within my Desktop
Video column elsewhere within this
issue.

Moving into the realms of profes-
sional video graphics^ the last six
months have s^en an explosion in
the number of 24-blt graphics cards
available for the Amiga. Most are a
bit on the pricey side (£1500+), but
several companies in the States have
started to market budget Z4-bit
cards that costs IfttJe more than
a couple
of hun-
d r e d
pounds.
Most
promising of
all these Is the
HAM-E 24-bit
ftGB card from
Black Belt Systems.
Their card runs on all
gas and selJs for just

Expand

and deliver

lason Holbom uses his peripheral
vision to conclude Amiga Conyuting's
expansion

$300.
It offers full
compatibility with a
range of 24'bit file formats
includmg 24-brt IFR, Targa, GIF,
Dynamic Hi Res and SHAM formats,
plus a load more besides, k comes
complete wHh 24-bit paint and ren-
dering software, making It an excit-
ing pmpositicn for anyone interested
in Amiga graphics. Expect a fuM
review soon.

Interticing may be 3 real p^ln on
the eyes, but it's just the tk:ket for
video work. However, if you've tired
out the old interiace hop, then you
can rid your machine of it forever .by
fitting any one d a number of fkker
fixer cards. These ingenious devices
convert the Am^ga display to a rock
steady picture that would put a VGA
PC to shame^ Unfortunately^ you also
need to buy an expensive multisync
montor, so they re very much
restricted to the more affluent Amig^
users amongst you.

On the horizon is the most excit-
ing video peripheral yet, Currentfy
only av^Habie in NTSC format,
NewTek are hard at work on a RAL
version of their ground-breaking
VldeoToaster effects system. It com-

bines a

broadcast qu^ii-

ty genlock and effects

systicm, with 24-bit graphics

capabHlities. Don't expect it for a fair

old time yet^ tfwugh.

Hard drivin"

Floppy driwes are all well and good,
but they have a number of distinct
diiadvantages. For starters, they are
soooo sEooovv - iver5 relatively small
files seem to take an etemi^ to load.
Secondly, even the Amiga's fairly wdl
hung drivts just can't handle enough
data, Tliey're ok If you're using your
Amiga for nothing mote than a bit of
word processing, but you'll soon
st^rt to feel held back once you start
messing around with 24- bit graphic
and l^ostScript f^les.

Of course what you reaily need h
a mass storage device, the most
common of which is the hard drive,
if yoy've never used a hard drive-
based Amiga, \hm you simply won't
even be able to comprehend v/hat a
difference such a device makes to
the Amiga. Suddenly everything
becomes so much smoother and so
much faster. No more do you. have
to mess around with disk swapping -|
everything Js there on a single high
.speed storage device.

Hard drives come in a range of
different si^es, starting at about 20 ,,

Amiga Coitifilttliig 107

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Mbytes and moving up to multi-
gigabyte m ske. Moit cheap Amiga
hard drin^ offer 20 Mbytes of stor-
age, but it'i Vtftnth spending a little
more for a higher capacity drWe -
preferably at Jeast 40 Mbytes. Vou
m^y think tiiai 20 Mbytes soynds
like m dvrful lot of storage, but youU
be surprised how qukkly it1l get
filled.

With the immirrent iaunth of
CommodDfi s CDTV system, another
storage device worth considering i^
that of CO-ROM. Vou can't directly
write to a CO-ROM disc ^oull need
a £3000+ WORM drive for that!), byt
they have one very maior advarktage
over hard drives ™ their sheer size. A
single CD-ROM disc c^fi store over
600 MiDytes of data, which rs over 30
times that which Commodore's
A5*0 can handle.

Commqdore have announced
that they will b? producing an es^ter-
nal CD-ROM drive for e^iiLing
Amigas later thfs year, but US-baied
Xetec have beaten them to it.
Xetec's drive is fully CD-TV compati-
bk, so youli ^till be able to take
acfvantage of CO-TV software once it
lis mad£ available.

To keep you goingL, Xelec actually
include a free 'Ftsh ^ More' CD-
ftOM di^sc which contahs the entire
Fred Fish collection of PU disks - all
IfiOofthemI

If you're using a hard drive, thin^
can go wrong - read writes errors
are a regutar occurance, but by far
the worst fear of hard drive users is
the dreaded head crash whkh usual-
ly results rn you losing everything on
yoiir drive.

What you need is a backup
device. If you're using a high capaci-
ty drive, then a good bet is a tape
streamer, a sort of glorified tape
recorder which backs up an entire

108 Amigii Computinf

Undercover Amigas

Question: When is an Amiga not an Amiga?
Answer: when It s a Mac, a PC, a Unh system, a BBC
micro, or even an ST,..

With Itttle more than an inexpensive piece of
hardware and some clever softwairex you can trans-
form your Amiga into a clone of just about any
major computer you car^ think of. There are emula-
tors far all the major S^bit micros - the BBC the
C64, the QL (yej, the QL is an 8^btt!) and even the
Spectrum 48k!

For the poseurs amongst you, It'i even
possible to transform your Amiga
into a fully functional clone of
an Apple Macintoih,
therefore allow-
ng yoiir
Amiga

to take advnateg of the vast range of quality pro-
ductivity software (well, DTP software, actually)
available for A|>ple's baby.

Things really 'start to hot up when It comes to

emulating a PC compatible - there are now no

fewer than four different hardware

PC emulators available! For the

A500. the best is undoubtedly

Bitcon's KCS Power PC Card,

afthough SDL's ATonce Is still

worth a look just because

of its multitasking capa-

bilitiei.

For those of
you with megaburiss
to spare, then
Commodore's
new Unk card
for the A3000
is well worth
checking out. It's a
complete tJnix system on a
card that's based around the lat-
est release of AT&rs multitasking, mul-
tiuser operating system. Yoti may not have
heard a great deal about it on the home computer
scene, but Unix Js big business in the corporate
market

hard drive onto dedicated tapes that
look not unlike those of the audio
varieiy.

Once again, Xetec also produce a
tape streamer which they sell for
about 1500. These come In two sizes
- 60 Mbytes and 150 Mbytes ~ and
are bundled hwith all the neccesssry
software to get you started.

If you can't quite afford a hard
drive, then a high density floppy
drive may just be the thing your
lookmg far Applied Engineering pro-
duce a 3.5ln high density drive
wtiich can pack a whopping 1.52
Mbytes of data onto a single high
density floppy. This can be bought
for about £130.

Modes rule OK!

The Amiga 500 is a pretty
versatile machine as. far
as expansion possibilities
go, but it's still not
ejtpandable as its big brothers,
the A2000 and A3000.
However, spotting a gap in the
market, several manufacturers
have come up with 'expansion mod
ules' whicfi altow the AriiFga 500 to
use hardware devices designed
exclusiveiy for the high end-Aii>igas.

The first to arrive was the A1500
from London-based Checkmate
DsgitaL for £2 JO, Checkmate's
expansion con5ole is a solid repine-
ment casing for the A500 that makes
the machine look more like its big
brother, the A20OO, The keyboard is
brought out of the ASOO casing to
live in its own external steel casing
which is attached to the main sy^em
unit via a curly cable. It provides
space for two drives FntemaIFy, plus
an extra kit is available to allov^ ASOO
owners to move the A59Q hard drive
inside the A1 SftD.

Checkmate are stiH hard at work
on an extra OverRider' module
which promises to add A2000
ei^pansion siot-compatibilh
ty to the

A1 500 This has been in the pipeline
for Qvei a year now, but Checkmate
recently revealed that the kit is finallj/
reaching completion.

More promisrng still rs the flodega
Bay modular expansion console from
US- based hardware manufacturer,
Cahfornia Access. Unfike the
Checkmate unit, the Bodega Bay
offers full ?000-card compaUbilty as
standard, split between four AZOOO
100-pin slots (for RAM expansions,
hard drives etc) plus three overlap-
ping XT/AT-comp^tible slots. The
Bodega bay can handle the
acclaimed Bridgeiward PC emulator,
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package? Saxon Publisfier conies
bounding in with boxfuls of delight,
but it's not for the faint-hearted, as
Richard Williams found out

The

Saxon

Frames and boxes with little
handles you can grab hald
of wilh your mouse pointer
are well-known to us^rs of desktop
publbhing systems.

With their buiindtrtg bttx^i, the
developers of Saxon Publisher,
Canadian comipany Saxon IndustrieSr
claim to have gone one better

Before revealing the delights of
the Saxon boxes, and describing
some of the package's other features,
one or two of which might lead the
easily 'frustrated to u^e a few choke
Anglo Saxon phrases, I offer for the
uninitiated a few wards of explana-
tion regarding boxe^ and Frames in
desktop publishing.

They are the containers for the
material - text and graphics - that
goes into a myriad of publications
from professionally produced maga-
zines like this one (I have to say this
to please the editor) with full colour
separations output to a very high
resolution phototypesetter, to the
humble parish magazme printed on
a rrono 9- pin dot matrix machine.

With frames and boxes, you coin-
trol the flow, position, shape and
angle ol text and graphics, and mu-
ally quite a tot more besides,
depending on the power of the
package you are using.

One excellent feature of the

Saxon's bounding box is that, unlike
some packages, there is no distinc-
tion between text and graphics
boxes. The law according to Saxon
could be stated a^ "a box is a box is
abox\

This makes for less option select-
ing and also allows you to mix text
and graphics in the same box with-
out hassle.

The real magic

Although it may seem like a restric-
tion at fir^tp there are sound reasons

for all printable elements being
attached to bounding boxes - yes,
that'i right, without them there's
absolutely nothing you can place on
the pages of your earth- shattering

publication or document.

You see, the real magic of a pack^-
age like this is that the 'boxes can be
manipulated in many ways to alter
the representation of the items they
contain.

It really is very easy to rot ate ^
scale, skew, fltp^ expand or compress

objects in just a few stLu^^di. The
Saxon boK definition requester- one
of the several dialog boxes asking
you to specify parameters - shows
you a representation of your bom
which changes angle as you select
different rotation angles, a neat little
trick which shows you fairly precisely

Tagging along...

One of ih^ mosf imporiant funcUons provided by ariy
DTP program rs ihe iofmaning of text bh^h. /n fjiost
doa^m^nti, ttxti^ot ibmponents mH b^ the primary focus,
the graphki ekm^nlt ierving as o secondary highlight.

for mo^iimum effecl, t^xl bloch muii be well laid out
with proper spadrfg, simg ar^d highlight! !o differerrriali
Wfejy hidings and body t^xt.

And, of coufie, once you've created one or several
stylei, you don*t want to ha\^e go through the serine pno-
cedynrj again every time you creait d documenl.

A type ityie, foirty eoiiiy created through the mediitfn

of too/?i requesters - boxei which pop up mkir\g you to
iefect Of write in options - ii o complete defmition of
parameters tor rendertrjg a paragraph^ corttoining ail the
f,ntofTn(?^fon about font, type s/>e, texture drrd spoclng.
Once u type ityfe has f^een defined, you give it a ™me
ar\d it appears in a list on Saxon^ ^idebor.

The great aduantoge is thai parograph^ can he for-
matted or}d reformatted simply by highlighting them ond
clickmg on ao availoble tag style, AH sfyte togs can be
saved and retrie\/ed for later u^e fr\ ony documens.

If] other wofd^, you rtever have to create a Llyte twice.

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Creating a template

So^pn'y remp/£j(^ feature oShwi pagez of any complexity to be sm^ed for kiter
retrieval. The poge^ you save m ihis way can inf:{ude bilmapped graphics,
structured drnwings and even text Wei.

You cjiijgn lych page designs ro fuDC^ton kiyi by invoking the Page menu
ond tmvir^g the pointer to ''As^igr} f-Key'". A ^ruQii requester Qpfsears, oskmg
yoo to enter a filename of up to 1 character for the page being ois^igned

After aisigr^tr^g a tempiate called, for imtonce, AMiGACOMPU to function
keyf}, ihe mb-menu Hem will then read ""Msign f-Key - fliAMSCACOMPU''.
Pages iGved in Shis way ore aetuaify stored in a directory within Ihe Samn
Pubiisher program, if you're rur^nir^g the program from a floppy disk, yoti
ihouid be aware of the limjted storage ipoce avoiiabie for assigi^ed objects.

Msigrjed pages, can be recafied whether or not o document already existi in
Ihe program environmeni iimply hold dawn the shift key arui press the rele-
vant function k^ white irt cursor mode.

Again, il'i a case of once ytiu've designed iomething, you don't have So go
through the mottosis again, it's what time-sitving, and therefore {:ost-effident,
DTP ii oil about.

what you're going to get. Having
this large measure cf concrol over
bok^ helps the typesetting proceis
from both the user's and the com-
puter's perspective.

Incidentally, not all boxes need to
be rectangles. You can create free-
hand boKes with any number of cor-
ners.

Hardware demands

Before we go any further, sorne

words of caution for the unexpanded
and the siightly ej<panded. You either
won't be able to run the program at
all, or at least youll find it vtry diffi-
cult.

3a)ion is a powerful program, not
intended for the fickle or faint-heart-
ed, and that applies to the hardware,
too. You really need a minrmum of
two 3.5 in drives, although the man-

ual says you can ""theoreticafly" make
use of the program with a single
driv^, but "at great inconvenience".

Unless your system has a hard
disk, at least two floppy drives are
needed to make working copies of
the program. For those producing
large and/or complex volumes, a
hard dtsk is highly recommended.

Oh, and you'll need at least 1
megabyte of memory.

Although Saxpn works properly
with any standard Amiga display, a
high persistence monitor is recom-
mended to feduce the flicker caused
by the highest resoJution mode,
which ii what Saxon runs In.
Unfoftunately, long persistence phos-
phor monitors come very expensive
compared with standard NTSC
colour monitors.

The alternative is to use a flicker-
fixing device. An ineJtpensive
polarised screen ran improve the sta-
biHty of the display dramatically.

The review copy of SaKon version

1.1 that I used provided difect sup-
port only to PostScript compatible
printers and phototypesetlers.
However, I'm assured the released
version wifl provide dot matrix sup-
pprt as well.

Weil, if that lot hasn't put you oft,
you must either have the bee's knees
in hardware or be prepared to spend
a good deal of money, and also want
EG produce quality documents or
publications. At any rate, this will be
the assumption for the rest pf this
review.

The best way to learn about
SaJ^on's excellent facilities, md its
few niggling bits, Is to work through
the Basic Tutorial in the manual and,
if you survive that, the Advanced
Tutortal which follows it.

.Enter the first niggling bit ~ there
are JSIO illustrations at afl in either
tutorial to show you what you
should be achieving as you draw and
manipulate your bo)ces, import your
text and graphics and create your
type styles and templates. The
author seems to assume that you've
read and remembered all the other
parts of the manual.

I did eventually realise, however,
that the the results to which the
tutorials should lead you are includ-
ed on disk, and you could, of course^
print this out before you begin.
Unfortunately, the bounding boxes,
the sidebar containing your tools,
filenames of fmported te^^t and
graphics etc, are NOT on the fin-
ished job, so there's still no easy
answer

Take a tip from one who's suffered
- make sure you read the
Fundamental Concepts and
Operating Parameters sections of^the
manual before going through the

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take will pay handsome dividends.

If you still have the occasional
problem identifyirrg what's on
screen, look It up in the Specific
Reference, Sidebar or Menu Strip
sectJon$.

The four modes

Apart from their lack of iilustratkjns,
the tutorials adequately demonstrate
the features of Saxon. There are four
modes of operation.

All manipulations to Uxt and
boxes are performed in Cursor
Mode, when the pointer, or arrow, is
the active tool. In this mode, all
screen display parameters, including
colour, are in force and it does seem
to take an age on occasion for the
screen to redraw itself after a
change.

In Paragraph Mode^ you perform
all operations relating to type styles,
as well as formatting of paragraph
styles. Drawings created within
Saxon Publisher itself, bounding box
outlines and onscreen colours don't
appear in this mode, since they are
not required for te:<t formatting.
Things happen a lot faster as a con-
sequence.

Text Mode allows you to manual-
ly enter characters into bounding
boxes, you could write the publfca-
tion you are working on in this way,
though the idea with Sa^ton, as with
all DTP packages, is that you Import
pre-pfepared text and graphics, with
only the odd headline, standfirst and
caption to be written in directly, Tou
also have the full range of facilities
for editing and formatting text.
Again,>the display is a simple one in
this mode, to keep things moving
quick^.

Final ly^ Drawing Mode allows the
creation and mani^pulation of struc-
tured drawings within your docu-
ments. A good range of tools
inclydes tine, bezier cun^e, connect-
ed line, rectangle, ellipse, polygon,
and smooth line (similar to connect-
ed line but the angles where lines
meet are converted to smooth
curves). Rectangle, ellipse and poly-
gon have filled versions as well for
tho^e who want to put textures into
their drawings.

Drawing mode only affects draw-
ings generated within the program.
Externally generated drawings can
only he manipulated while in cursor
mode.

When Saxon first loads, the main
area of interest onscreen ii a panel

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the Sidebar.

Tfiis contains gadgets for ^lei^ting
the four mode^ as outlined above,
te^xt style gadgets (plain, bold, italic
and underline), and the screen posl-
ton gjidget showing the portion of
the document currently displayed on
screen (m^gnificaLions of 30 per cent
to 300 per cent are available).

The sidebar also contains the tag
lirst In paragraph mode, this contains
the names of any text or graphics
files which were generated extetnally
and imported into your documentor
publication.

One of the delightful features of
Saxon is that you can impcrt files at
any stage, right at the start of docu-
ment creation, if you Irke, without
having so much as ptaced a bound-
ing bOK on a page.

What happens is that the name of
the file - the tag - $lts en the list In
the sidebar until you've created a
box or several boxes for it. Then,
simply clkk on the tag and the text
or graphic appears in whichever bo?<
is selected. If it's text which needs to
be run into several boxes, clicking on
the next box. to select It, then click-
ing once more on the tag will flow
the t^t CHI from the precise point at
which It ended In the previous box.

As you continue to mn in text in
this way, it flowi over or around any
graphic elements according to the
parameters you have given in the rel-
evant requester to the boxes con-
taining them.

In paragraph mode, the tag list
displays a list of style tags. The
"New" gadget at the bottom of the
ta^ list enables you to create a new
style tag, which initially will be the
same as whichever tag was high-
lighted when you clicked on *'New".

Add some texture

Objects In Saxon Publisher can be textured in a variety of ways. Every
page, box, style tag and internally generated structured drawing has a
user-definable texture associated with it-
Options include bitmapped baclcgrounds^ outlining thickriess^ transpar-
ent and solid colours.

As far as text is concerned, outlines, backgrounds and drop shadows
can have any solid colour hue associated wfth thenn.

In the texture requesters associated wrth any particular document ele-
ment, users can specify co^olij' as a combination of red, green and blue.
The Colour Display Window provides a graphic illustration of the selected
colour.

Altematively, yau can use the facilities for selecting cokiur^ as Prirvter's
Ink^ giving a more accurate representation of printed output, or CMYK val-
ues. This latter allows you to to specify es^acl ink density (as a percentage)
of each colour separation (cyan, magenta, yellow and bl^ck) which comes
off the output devic€-

TeKlure and colour are close partners when it comes to cieating breath-
taking effects in your documents. Experiment and enjoy is the name d the
game.

A goodly range of feady-made pre-set textures is provided wit^ Saxon
Publisher The range includes effects such as gradients, stonehricks and
drop shadows.

Make the required changes and give

the style a new name in the relevant
requesters.

In drawing mode, the only entry
in the tag list is the word
"Retexture". When this Is selected,
the texture requester appears, allow-
ing you to define the outline thick-
ness and colours as weN as the
background textures for all struc-

Packed with features

As you would expect of a DTP package aimed at professionals, Saxon
Publisher is packed with features.

,^rt frorn tffcO^e mentioned In the main part of this review^ the notable
ones include:

• Page sizes up to 20 K 20 inches
are supported.

• Page backgrounds rendered in
any yser-delined solid colour or
one of 21 bitmapped textures
(stilt more textures can be
ordered from Saxon Industries).

• Easily created column guides to
assist w^th layout.

• Screen angles and densities
defined to four decimal places.

• Abilily to variably scale the final
out^t scale of any document.

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• Routines to double or quadruple
output resolution of bitmaps
without sacrificing sharpness or
detail.

• Text sizes from 3 to a staggering
2000 points,

• Support for downtoadable fonts,

• facilities to directly import and
print 24-bit images without need
for conversion utilities,

• Support for Encapsulated
PostScript (EPS) and PorVestor
files.

The icKturv rcqirtltef. Tfw
i'Aitgt and ityflc^ of tejctures
uid the ccKitrol yuu hiw owr
them are omcfrllcnt fenrtyres af

tured drawings attached to the
active bounding box,

Style transfer gadgets are also
provided, allowing you to irnpose
the style tag of the cun^ently high^
lighted paragraph onto an entire sec-
tion of text appearing either before
Of after it, either within the active
box only, or for all boxes in whichev-
er direction is selected.

The remainder of the sidebar con-
sists of bounding box deFinition gad-
gets (rectangular or freehand are the
two options); depth arrangernent
gadgets allowing you to change the
current layering arrangement of
overlapping boxes by moving the
active box to front or back; and the
self-explanatory delete box, delete
contents, box moving and graphic
filling gadgets.

The menu strip^ wtiich runs across
the top of the opening display^ is
Invoked irt the usual Am^ga fashion
with a elicit of tihe right mouse but^
ton, and gives full control over docti^
ment^ importation of external files,
pagination, bounding boxes, type
styles, editing facilities lii<e cut, copy,
paste, sean± and replace, and pref-

erences such as page view and njler
(inches, metric or pica/point rulers
^ne available).

And in conclusion..,

Ttie two tutorials in the manua) witl
^quickly get you up to speed with
Saxon Publisher. After completing
the second one, I guarantee you will
be ready, nay positively itching, to
produce something of your own.

I don't altogether like Saxon's
more complete requesters. There's
not much depth to the tittle boxe^
you need to click {you should have
remembered to bring your specs -
£d) and the type style requester in
particular boles very cluttered.

However, now that we're so close
to the end, I have to confess to mone
than a passing acquaintance with the
likes of Quark XPress, Aldos
Page maker, Ventura Publisher and
even the package specially written
for the OS/2 on the PC, Describe.
Some of thos^e packages have been
out quite a few years now, and have
had a chance to metamorphose into
something nearer perfection.,

My initial impression of Saxor is
that it is good - very, very good, in
fact, for those who can afford it and
its rather hefty hardware require-
ments.

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Not so Fast

\*m in pciie^^ian of a revfsion 6 A500 with
O.SMb expansJon. Some time ago 3 m-odified the
motherbaard so I could hav^ 1 Mb of Chip RAM.

The problem now is thai the MS-DOS emula-
Lor Transformer doesn't work, and when i puii
down DPaint Hi's anim m^nu, it is ghc>sted out sjo
that none of the options are avaiiabie,

Couid it be because there's no fa^tmem any
more or is it because of a inartJware fault?

ir i buy anotiner imternai expansion iMdnj with
T.SMb Of mdire, tan I: kben use my Translomner
^nd animate in DPaint lii and stilt have 1Mb of
chipmEm? I would r^aiiy appfecfate it if
coy id give me the answers to my questi^s.
Keep the good work going - i think you're
is the l^esE there is.

J Hoogendoorn, Berkel-Ens^hot, Holland

As you gue^§«d, th« problem lie( in your
machine no ionger having access to fastmem,
at least in the case of the DPatnt anim menLi,
l^m not so sure of the Transformer problem,
but it h more than likely to be the same.

You can rule out hardware faults - if your
DlV conversion had any detrimental effects on
the motherboard, especially the dedicated
chips, the results would be a lot more obvious
than they are at the moment.

Anyone with expanded memory cafi^ use
NOFASTMEM to turn off their fastram and
then t/y DPaint Ill's anim menu. It won't work
on a machine with no fastram, lo you can rest
assured that your Amiga isn't damaged.

The addition of a bigger memory board
should allow you to use the fulf 1Mb of chlp-
mem along with some extra fastram as long
as you don't reverse the motherboard cors ver-
sion. Your problem will then disappear.

Try before you buy

I am considering a hard drive for my A500, possi-
bly the CVP. However I have a few uncertainties
as regards hard drives, ^nd I would he grateful if
you could clear them up for me.
ft Now prone Is a hard drfve to magnetic forces?
Mine would be sitting near my mini-speakers and
television.

• Are there often any procedures to carry out
during power on/off? (i.e head parking etc}

• What may usually cau^e a corruption of the
diik?

ftrett Buddey, Huddersfteld

The GVP series 2 drives are fast and efficient,
if a btt pricey and you'll find a review of them
in our February Issue, As for your concerns:

• iHard drives are quite safe from normal elec-
tro-rn^gnetic fields of the kind generated by
TVs and such like. I have a GVP sitting three
inches from a monitor and ten inches from my
A500 power supply at this vtty moment.
There s no harm in taking precautions against
EMR but don't get paranoid.

• You won't have to park your drive heads
during normal use. The only time this is neces=
sary is when you move them from one loca-
tion to another, risking heavy jolts or
vibrations. Many hard drives these days,

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1 Corruption can be caused by many things,

and although hard drives aren'^t as prone to

physical corruption as floppy drives, they sti^ll

go wrong occasionally.

Dust and coffee can affect you mechanism,
but the most common problems come about
through mangled files and di^k validation
errors. F[xOisk 1.2 from the M#irch coverdisk
will sort out most of these.

Suffering Seagate

Due to a f^ir amount of gross stupidity on my
behalf I find myself without any software to get

my hard drive going. I know that I should have
made severa) back-ups and all that, but vve all
make mistakes.

Why didn't I just write to the manufacturer?
Yes, you've guessed \l, I've tost the address. The
drive is a Seagate ST-223N ^nd Ehe interface is
manufacturecJ by a company called C Ltd, modet
SCSI -500 Serial No. 85 1 L 595 Rev 1 2.

I can1 find the manufacturer's address or any
trace of them. Does anyone out there know their
address or even know of any software that can
gel my drive going?

S M Smith, Manchester

Where did you buy that Interface? I can't find
the company either, but Seagate are easily
contacted - phone (062S) ^903^,

You should also contact the shop which
orfginaiiy supplied you with the SCSI interface
- there should have been some hard drive
tools with it. To get the drh^e up and runnmg,

you'll have to carry out a tow level format.
Seagate's tech support bods tell me they usu-
ally try memory addresses C800 and CCOO to
activate the routines for this operation.

The process involves using an assembly
debug program to find then address the cor-
rect memory location, so if you're not into
machine cod^ things could get sticky.

If you're lucky, the drive might already have
been prepped and treated to a low level for-
mat. If this Is the case, just turn to pages S-3
and A>2 of the Workbench IJ enhancer soft-
ware manuaf for the scanty Information sup^
pJied with your machine.

[f you can construct a mountlist entry and
FORMAT the drive. It should be easy enough
to MOUNT Ft and cany on from there. If this
isn't sufficfent, please send more information
on your set up, and the name of the supplier
in particular, and HI try to get you a more
exact answer.

Picture-popper

A friend and myself have just started to do a ref-
erence program using the Workbench set-up.
The program is self-booting, but what we'd lil(e
lo do is ^oad a picture then have it disappear
betore Workbench fo^ds up.

We have designed a loading screen and called
it Monson, but we vvould be grateful if you could
tell us the commands to get the screen to work
durif>g our startup-sequence.

B Johnjon, Rhyl

There are several IFF viewer programs avail-
able to do what you want. The most common ^

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ij probably Wlbm, which will display any IFF
format, including HAM, Jind will evers dispkay
text. One of th^ rhcist compact Is PPShow,
which will display^ f{l«s crunched with
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The forthcoming Workstation disk will
Include PPShow and an cK^mple of what it
doei In the startup-sequence, but if you want
Just a viewing program, most PD librarlei will
be happy to lupply one.

They all work in a relatively simple way. For
example, to use Vilbm in your startups
se^^uence, simply Include the line

ifid the pkture wUI be displayed until a key is
pressed, then startup witl continue.

Memory Game

I was interested to read your article on CLI in the
March issue of AmigQ Compitimg. I have an A500
with a full megabyte and I shall probabty buy an
extra drive.

At the moment I am interested in making bet-
ter use of the RAM eMtension.

Games such aj Monty Python seem to make
extensive use of disk access, which is quite time-
consuming. If you could explain how to run
games in RAM disk rather than the Floppy drive
you would save me a lot of time.

Peter Ttngle, Kingston upon Thames

Tm afraid I haiven't much good news. The RAM
disk h fine for a lot of uses, but you can't copy
commercial games into it.

Apart from being illegal, it h usually impos-
sible, as th«ir copy protection does not usi^ally
allow for simple AmigaDOS operations. I
mean, if you could copy a game into the RAM
disk, you could copy it onto another Nop|>y,
arid that would be piracy.

It should be easy enough to copy PD games
tnto your RAM disk, but as many of these load
completely into memoiy, you wonl save much
time by doing thEs.

Kind words for KindWords?

I've bought KindWords which I am now using,
but not to the full eitlertl. I cannot access any of
the available fonts because I don't know how to
go about setting the correct printer driver in the
Preferences.

It's supposed to read EpsonX PRIsl. By the way,
I use an ASDD with an extra drive and 0.5Mb
extra RAM.

Zbigniew Pawlowicz. Hereford

When you load up the KindWords program
disk/you should find the Preferences Icon in its
window. Double click on this to open the
Preferences window, then dick on the Printer
icon.

This will bring up a screen with all your
printing options. For the purposes of setting
your printer driver, simply select Parallel or
Serial then clkk on the two arrows In the top
right quarter of the screen until the EpsonX
printer driver is highlighted in the central bar.

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RAM revisited

I am a relatrve newcomer to the woild of Amiga
Computing, having bought a Class of the
Nineties pack about two years ago, and have
been using my A500 mostly for domestic pur-
poses.

About a year ago, I bought a Micro botics
MS 01 RAM upgrade and an extra drive, I have
recently been trying to uje the Amiga for adding
titles and graphics to our video films via a
Rendale 8^02 genlock and DPaint III.

How^ever, I have run into memory problems -
it seems that my 1 Mb is not up to the job.

To add to the problem, I recently purchased
the Broadcast Titter 2 program, which I found
requires a minimum of 1 .5Mb to mn.

Please could you help 5 green newcomer
w»th some advice on upgrading HAM, especially
as nrK)re and more of rt appears to b« needed to
run the Increasingly complex. Amiga applications.

I have considered buying a hard drive, but
understand that this wouSd mean I could nl mn
my existing programs^ and would require an
upgraded power supply. I would appreciate any
help given in simple terms.

J R Russellr Uicbridge

Ai you seem to have the money to spend on
reasonably espensive kit (the Rendate 8802
and fil^X I ^ouM advise you to 90 (or one of
the larger and more expensive A500 RAM
upgrades. The I CD Ad A am board fits in the

Now click on OK, then on SAVE when the next
screen appears^ and your preferences will be
set to the correct printer - always assuming
that your printer is working In standard Epson
mode.

If it is a Star LC10, Panasonic KXIOSI^ or
one of the other popular 9- or 24™pin models,
it will almost certainly be Epson compatible
and should be perfectly happy with the
EpsonX driver.

Xasperated music lover

I am a keen music enthusiast who tries desperate-
ly hard to write music using my A5CK3 (with v1 .2
ROM), Mu$icV 1.1, and MIDI synth. To ^dd to my
p-roblems^, I have found that strange things hap-
pen when playing back samples through MusicX
and PD player programs.

The samples seem to play at" the correct pitch
most of the time, but every now and then MusicX
plays a sample at what seems to be a random
pitch.

As you can guess this makes them virtually
unusable for producing music. I'm not sure
v^etber this is a hardware or a software problem,
although I can't recall having the same problem
with Sor^ix.

Rkhard Hobson, London

The samples are playing at a funny pitch
because they were sampled at a different rate.
If you use a disk of PD samples, the chances of
all of them playing at the same pitch are slim.

What you need to do is change the sample
play rate and therefore the pitch, and the tech-

Amiga's trapdoor and can be expanded to
6Mb. As such It h an attractive add on. espe-
cially as it enables the fuN 1Mb of chip RAM
with a simple solder connection fully
explained In the helpful manual. Contact
Power Computing on (0234) 273000 for more
details.

Alternatively, there's the Cortex system
from Memory Eitpanston Systems on {05^1)
2M 0480. This is a large box which fits Into
the expansion bus on the left hand side of the
ASQO and can be expanded to SMb.

It is a guality product, and has a though^
port' so that other devices, such as the hard
drive you're thinking of buying, can still be
attached to the Amiga.

As for hard drives, if you ar^ going to put
the Amiga to serious use, a hard drive is
essentiaiL It doesn't matter so much how big
or fast it is - Wf hard drive is infinitely bett^
than a floppy-based system.

Your power supply will be put under an
increased strain by the memory upgrade, so
you may Indeed have to purchase a beefier
unit from one of our advertisers.

Before doing so, however, give your new
system a try. ! use an A500 with $ 6Mb
AdRAM boan^ installed. The power supply is
an original Commodore unit, and works well
enough, though I do on occasion suffer more
gums and crashes tfian my fair share.

n)c|ue required is transposition. Your problem
has already been solved for free! MED v3.00, as
found on last month's coverdisk, Includes a
sample editor which is capable of transposing
any sample.

Simply load in the sample, change the peri-
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been transposed. The Sample Editor document
on the disk gives full details and provides a
table of values to set for whichever note you'd
like the sample to play at.

If you don t have MED v3,00 you can get )t
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I have recently upgraded from a Commodore 64
to an Amiga 500. With my C64 I used a Ferguson
TX television which has a seven pin din RGB
m:put, I was wondering it I could use thts capabili-
ty with my Amiga as it would greatly enhance the
picture and sound quality.

Martin Tomlinson, Wokingham

it should be easy enough to connect your
Amiga to such a TV - all you need fs the cor-
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ear, and I wish you'd specified which it was,
your local dealer will have a lead to connect
the Amiga's 21 pin video port to an RGB din
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Quality will not be as high as with a full
SCART connection, but it will be a lot better
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fn the first of our Almanac Insight series,
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DTV...

129

Jason Holborn becomes a budget conscious
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...133

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DTP enthusiast Joltn Walker illustrates the
ingportance of design in DTP and shows how a
little planningjcan go a long way

Amfga C«^pii|tnq 125

Serious sequencing made
simple - Paul Austin rips
the plastic off the latest
music package.

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It's been a long tfme coming but
a credible aJtem^tivc in- MuskX
and (he rest has finally arrived.
Sequencer One is the latest
release from Gadjits Musk Software,
the company gradyally beginning to
dominate the field of A^miga music
processing, They'vie done it by keep-
ing a close eye on what's happening
with some of the big names in the
business.

Last year, Roland, the inslmment
peopier spotted the gaping hole in
the Aftiiga market and as a result
combined with Commodore to push
their CM and D series synths and
modules into the arms of waiting
Amlgans.

To support the move, Cadjits have
fdllqwed up Roland's lead with patch
editing software to support the
needs of the new musos. As a result
ol the collaboration between Gadfits
and Roland CM and D- series users
will find Sequencer On!e parljculariy
well suited to their set up.

This isn't to say it wouldn't suit
any arrangement of equipment, and
for those new to the idiosyncrasies of
Midi and sequencing in general it
could be an ideal introduction to
the art. Gadgets have taken a refresh-
ing look at the needs of the average
Mfdi musician and developed the
product with their requirements tak-
ing priority.

As a result Sequencer One is not
an all singing and dancing mega
mgsjic utility. It is hi3wever a dedicat-
ed sequencer which does exactly
that and with the minimum of ftiss.
MuskX, the market leader, trfes to
be everything to everybody and as a
result tends to fall a fittle short in cer-
tain area^ such ai the Library and
Protocol pages, both of which are
great in principal but difficuit in
practice.

The Gadjits alternative doesn't
support either of these functions, but

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slightjy less appealing, but don't
despair - the chaps at Cadjits have
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promise upgrades to registered users
at very reasonable rates.

What's on offer

The software consists of three
screens, each giving you an individu-
al view of your creation. Tlie track list
is the first of the three and has a
maximum of 32 tracks available for
etther playback or storage.
As ycHJ no doubt know Midi supports
a maximum of 1 6 channels of simuU

taneous playback. Nevertheless the
remaining tracks are very hancly tor
storing alternative tracks and those
slightly dodgy bits you're not quite
ready to throw away.

Switching between individuaf
tracks h simply a matter of clicking
the mute icon on or off. Selecting
channels for lecording is Just as sim-
ple - just click DTI the track and the
red record icon appears.

From then on the channel's select-
ed. Pick a voice and hit the record
button and you're off. This makes life
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fast for the expert. If you're a reason-
able pianist you can create ^ multi
timbral sequence in minutes and all
recorded at 192 PPQN,

Recording can be done in both
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with optional auto rewind. Any mis-
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undo last edit feature^ which is great
if, like me, you need ten attempts at
even the simplest sequence. Each
trsi-ck can be separately marked for
easy editing and drum machine style
loops can be applied, saving a lot af
time and tnicky editing.

Perhaps my favourite aspect of
the Track list is its potential on
mixdown. When you've created
the next Aggadoo Euro pop
hokee cokee classic it stiil
needs to be mixed and
the Track List is
excellent for adding
the important finish-
ing touches to the sound.

Once a track is highlighted with
the record icon the voiume of an
individual track can be altered with
the data volume control on your
synth. Combine this with the ability
to mute any or ail of the tracks and

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you have an instant digital mixing
desk - rnsrvellous!

Tihe S€cond screen i^ the Step
Editor and a^ the name suggests this
is where you can take advantage of
the pow^r that a decent sequencer
can provide, removrng notes you
don't ^ant and adding the really
clever Rjn that you coufd never man-
age \m. It's this editing ability that
makes the Keep Mu^k Live lobby
phy^iE^ally sick, but it also makes cre-
ating music accessib^ to almost any-
one.

Tfie editing screen takes the now
familiar piano roll format. The zoom
feature varies between full or quarter
bar magnification which I found
slightly limiting on occasion, For
example, when editing drum pat-
terns it's sometimes a little trkky to
alter individual note^ at the first
attempt.

The info option i^ particuJarly
pleasant and allows you to click on
any note and receive all the Infomia-
tion concerning iti prtch, duration
and so cinr These various elements
can then be altered by simpfjf typing
in a new number for each charactef*

istjc.

The deiete icon has an obvious
function and allows the individual

deletion of notes, li you want to
remove larger sections of a track
you'll probably need to use the block
option which tets you manipulate

excess p* the scope of the screen.

The block option is best activated
by entering the start and end posi-
tions into the appropriate window.
This can then be deleted, copfed, cut
or pasted as required.

Blocks can also be set on screen
by simply clicking and dragging with
the trusty rodent. Most operations
involve the rodent with the occasion-
al Wt of typing as you add various
start and stop positions.

it's also possibte to use step entry
via the KeyB icon, this brings up a
miniature keyboard which displays

m If you want
quality results
quickly and
simply you could
do a lot wor^e ^

various notes as they're depressed.
The characteristics for these notes
can be altefed as required.

Thi5 h a particularly useful option
if you're not an ivory tickler by trade
as it gives you the option to work at
your own pace Th^ only problem
with this method is its tendency to
lead to rather mechanical end
results.

In general editing is reasonably
simple with the block optJonis being
a particularly pleasant element.
When this is combined with the
overdub function and the tape deck
controls, editing becomes a little
more of a pleasure and a little iess of

reai moan concemj
bll graphics and th^
Ecasional hesitancy to
tes.

Bering from this corth

there may be a cure

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Step Editor as musical

micro su^c]^: ry, the Bar editor would

best be dtic|toed as good old fash-

ironed amputHon.

This screp is a dream for the
commercial I V orFentated types who
want to CI..: and paste their way to
the charts No lubttetles here, just a
touch of mtMcai hack and liash a^
you move g At chucks of your tune
an^und tofoBt vers^, choms, middif
efght and soBn^ Sony I'm showing
my age then^l meant to say chonjtj,
chorus, choryMTid chonis.

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Range of options

To be honest the Bar Editor is a use-
ful screen for anyone, giving a great
overview of the entire piece and
showing you e^cactfy what's gomg on
where. Again editing is a simple mat-
ter of ciickrng, dragging, deleting
and pasting. You can aiways record
from here as you can from my of the
three scree ni with the ever present
tape recorder controls.

As well as the record and play
controls there's a whole range of
options waiting on the menu baj In
familiar, inluition-styfe puii-downs.
All kinds of reqy enters and off /on
options are avaiFable, some of which
you can no doubt see from the com-
pikated screen shot

It's these pull downs which give
the software the necessary complexIL
ty to compete with the likes of
MusicX. It s possible to access and
alter all kinds of sequence infomna^
lion varying from MIdF import and
export controj, to btock functions
and the optron to work with either (0
& 1) Midi fonnats. This gives a high
level of compatibility with many
other Midr packages.

The Hit Kit

For a limited period. Gad jits Hit Kit
software is being bundied with eveiy
Sequencer One sold, ft ysuaily retails
at £25 a time but for now it's free.
The Hit kit is basically a coJiecbon of
various sequences divided up into
numerous styles with a number of

options for each. For exampFe^ you
could load a drum pattern from the
Jaz^ section followed by a separate
bass line, middle, lead and so on.
These are all available in single bars
but can be pasted in any number
and combination.

As a result you can buifd com-
pletely new if less than original songs
by mining the various component
parts. I've got to admit it's great fun
sticking ali the bits together, but to
be honest the end results are a bit
predictable, not to mention siightly
siliy.

Having said that though the num-
ber and quality of the drum patterns
make the Hit *<it a godsend for even
the most serious musos, The patterns
alone make the JH it Kit well worth
having and the various riffs in the
many and varied styles can only help
begfnners learn a few tricks of the
trade.

As I mentioned earliier Sequencer
One rs ideaJ for the beginner and to
cater for that market the Amigars
internai voices have been well sup-
ported within the software. Even a
separate sample palette has been
added to make life a litt*e easier.

Final thoughts

If you're new to Midi but not neces-
sarily music, Sequencer One could
well be ideal, featuring a good com-
b ligation of ability and ease of use. To
support vuch a sweeping statement I
ran only quote my own experience
which consisted of creating a com-
plete piece m a day without a glance
at the short ar>d sweet manual

Thr5 alone should be praise
enough for any software dealing
wfth an area as complex as Midi. I
doubt I could have done the same
with MusitX and if I'd dropped the
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If you're budget is a little tiglit,
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The Amiga may well be the
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desktop videOp but ihefe'i no
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a. half decent DTV letup can be an
expensive affair.

Even at itie most basic level, you1l
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genioct

The video sources arenl too
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Sllka Systems have announced that
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more sophisticated features that
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£500+, but all this power can be
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For your money, you get a
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lay Amiga graphite onto any com-
posite video source and then record
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You can fe^ it a source video sig-
nal from ju5t about any video device
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It can be powered either by the
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supply for those of yoir who already
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nectedloyour A500.

Unlike most genlocks, the RocGen

featyres AutoViideo passthru which
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external video source to pass
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or VCR even il either the Amiga or
external video source h powered
down-
But what really lifts the RocGen
above 'budget' genlocks such as
MiniCen is its powerful fading snd
overlaying effects . Using a tuning
knob on the front of the genlock
hardware, you can adjust the degree
d both the fade and oveHay.

Fade mode allows you to adjust
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a computer graphic display to sotely
a video image. In overlay mode, the
video image is pernamently
displayed, but yoy can 'fade in' (and
out) the Amiga graphics.

These effects alors will aJlow you
to produce much mofe professional-
looking presentations.

This feature aJone makes the
RocGen one hell of a bargain. Very
few genlocks below the £500 mark
offer fade and overlay controls^ espe-
cially through a hardware control
knob.

The RocCen is aviilable now from
Silica Systems on 081 309 1111.
Ejtpect a full review next month.

Genlock for pros

At the other end of the pricing spec-
trum comes Magni Systems' new
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Amiga that wHI set you back a Cool
£2000. Fufly compatible with the
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TdoTs for video

Eschalon Developments hsve just
announced the release of their new

Vhdeo Tools system, which they claim
offers '(^eiythlrig you need for video
production'*

For your £300 (it ain't cheap!),
you get a toot for cresting subtitles
and credits^ a telepromter, an image^
presenter (3 slideshow to
me), a video pattern generate
colour bar ^nd jafe^area
tors, text scroller^ nine
J~compatible colour font
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scripting language. If Xhh sounds like
the kind of thing you've been look-
ing for, then contact Eschalon on
0101 604 520 1541

Fonts galore

if you need some new colour fonlj^
then there are plenty of new releasee
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mon iOuncE of these foots fs Arrwrica,
where such companies as Zuma and
Kara have been producing both
mono and colour fonts for several
years now.

A new company on the scene is
Miami-based CV Designs. They've
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point sizes upto 85 pomL.

They're completely compatible
with packages such as TV^Text Pro,
DPaini 3 and Caiiigrapher, mak-
ideaf for people who
iroduce stunning text-
isplays without having
: in too much effort.
disk costs approK
CVafeonOIOl 617
1 9224.
Closer to home
omes the r^ews that
:heckmate Di"gital
Ltd (they or the
A1500 expansion
console for

Ithe A500)
have taken
on distribution of the Olo range of
colour fonts from Swedish company
Artovinjett.

As sopn 5s chey aie made avail-
able, you can expect a full revjew in
this column. Stay toned until then,
but in the meantime, you can find
out more by contacting Checkmate
on 071 923 0658.

Next month

Ai well as the review of Silica's
new RocCen genlock, I'll be
bringing you a comprehensive
iouk at what the PD libraries have
to offer the Amiga desktop video
enthusiast, including video titlers,
presenLation systems and
slideshows.

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Margaret Stanger goes
primitive to create a graphics
display using Assembler

Last month'i Code Clinic dis-
cussed tlie video display in
great deUt, so I will skip
some of the preamble and concen-
trate on creating a CraphiL^
Primitives display using Assembler.

Graphic description

The colour of each piKel is related to

the value of one or more data bits in
memory. To create multicoloured
images^ the system must be told
how many bits are required per
piKel.

in my first Vnewport (blue), I have
used a colours and 3 bitplanes, and
the system retrieves one data bit
from each bitplane.

For each pixel data bits in the
same horiio-ntal and vertical posilian
are combined by the system to cre-
ate a binary value.

This determines the display color
for that piKeL The system usei g
bitmap structure which contains the
height, width, depth and iocalion of
the bitpJanes,

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view

The display is created from a set of

instructions in the view structure.,
This structure is initialised using the
command InitView^ and linked to the
flRt viewport

Each viewport Is Enitalrsed with
default values, and its own para -
meters are added later:-

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which hais 3 pointer to the second
bitmap.

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larger than the screen image, by cre-
ating a bitmap larger than the view-
port area.

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sets for the relative position of the
display to the complete picture.

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default colours. There is a command
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space for a colourmap and return a
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cate eacn>itplane, The retyried
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Now that all the data structures are
compfete, the command MakeWort

ask^ fhe system to make a set of dijr
play instructions (or copper list) from
the structures In the Viewport.

This has to be done for each
Viewport. The commiand MrgCop
merges these copper lists into a sin-
gle instruction list.

LoadView turns on direct memory
access (DMA) and the dispfay will be
shown on the screen. Any Bicker can
be reduced by waiting for the beam
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ha^ been linked to its bitmap it is

possible to use the Graphics Lrbraiy

drawing commands.

Getting the picture

The listed program first savei the
address of the old view using the
gb_AcliView offset from the graph-
ics base. The view h initalfsed and
three viewports.

The first viewport is 48 lines high
with 8 blue colours and three bit-
planes. The second viewport is 100
lines high with dual red and grey
playfields. The third viewport is 48
lines high with 32 green cgtpijri ^nd
S Wtplanes.

The drawing routines have been
used to produce a sehes of rectan-
gles on the screen. In the second
viewport the grey playfield is domi-
nant except for tran^p^r^nt areas of
cobur zero.

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first 8 colours of each viewport are
cycled, and another delay beFore the
program releases the allocated mem-
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There's mourting olcrm about the appalling stendards oF spelling
among Britoin^s schoolchildren. MPs, teachers^ parents and
employers are all stressing the vital importonce oF being able to
spell eorredly.

Yet most homes have what could be the idea! means of teaching
spelling - the computer

ln$tecd oF zoppjng aliens it could be turned into the best weapon
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And this one package is ideal For everyone - with the lowest age
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fl ifKlvdes five different tesH^ each making ose of rmm
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For pmcHce runs, ihs word ij left on rfie s^rnsen as tf U fypea.

RoclcBt Hidden words have to be discovered in ffiis hi-tech version of
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Jason Holborn brings you the lates
gossip from the Amiga music scene
Miss this at your peril

^^Mfin^ of Dinnonware's

^^B atclarmed game music cre-
m ation system TFMX wifl be
pleased lo learrt that a major
upgrade will be with us really soon.

Demonware have li^lened to
many of lh& criticisms which were
levelled at the origrnal release,
updating ^nd adding Features to
TFMX 2/

The new program boasts many
new features intJuding comprehen-
sive editing tooh and full support for
Midi, making TFMX 2 one of the
mosi powerful sound chip composi-
tion systems yet produced for the
Amiga.

Probably the mm major new fea-
ture is the inclusion of support for
Midi communications. TFMX can
now be operated via Midi-compati-
bfe devke5 such as synthesisers^
mother keyboards etc.

Obviously the most immedpaie
use is for the input of performance
data by playing it directjy on your
Midf keyboard, but TFMX ^Iso fea^
tures powerful Midi synchroniHtion
options. These aflow TFMX Lo tran-
fonn the ^iga into a dedicated 4-
channel Midi sound module,

Editing was particularly poor with-
in TFMX 1, especially if you were
used to the more traditional method
of music compositfon. Thankfully,
Demon ware have taken notice of Lhis
obvious omission with the inclusion
of an all-new Pattern Editor which

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allows. Tf MX sequences to be edited

in a graphics! form, much fike those
editors employed by Midi
sequencers.

Sampled instruments may sound

realistic, by I they have one major
Failing - ihey est memory, lots of it.
For those of you with extravagant
tastes but not enough memoj-y to
satisfy them, TFMX now has i com-
prehensive Synthesis module which
allows you to create analog-like
synth sounds that filf only a few
bytes of y&ur precious memory.

Vou can create realistic {and very
trendy) acfd-like squelchy bas§
Hounds and sweeping analog tflmes.

TFMX is now a complete one-stop
music creation system. Not only can
you arrange scores, but you can now
create your instruments without hav-

Muslc-X 2 bites the dust

Ves, the unimaginabJe has hap-
pened - Microlflusiciris have killed
off what Is undoubtedly the mo5t
importarit Am^a music pnjdyct in
existence.

There's no doubting that with-
out Dave loiner's acclaimed Midi
sequencing syitem, the Amfga
would never have achieved the
success within the music industry

that it Is now enjoying. According
to a source close to Mysic-X pro-
gram mer Dave, he ha j ceased
deveteprnent of Music-X in favour
of products for Commodore's
forthcoming CD based Amiga, the
CDTV. Despite considerable iinter-
est from users, Tt seems that
Muslc'X version 2 may now never
jeetheJighlofday.

The new refease promised to
add many of the features that
MusicX users have been crying out
for - full score editing, drum edit-
ing, plus a whole Jot more. Unless
a third party developer decides to
fill the gap left by David's decision,
it looks ais if MusicX users will be
left high and dry.

ing to firsyoad ^ ctedicaied simpie

It you -^le got a sampler conneried
to the p^^rallei port of your Amigd,
you can even grab samples from
directly within TFyx amJ then cfedn
them up using Its comprehemive
sample editing tools.

Med goes pro

Hot on TfMX 2'i heels is a brand

new rekase of Teijo Kinnuoer-S
acclaimed PD music editor. Meu.
After putting the finishing touches to
Med version 3 (rt's on the
coverdisklX Teijo is now beavering
away on a new refease which li not
only more professional than previous
ones, but has one major feati^ire tlial
leaves most of the competition:
standing - ft is S-channeL :

OctaMed is fully compatible with
previous releases, but Teip has
pushed the Amiga's sound hardware
to its vejy Ifmits to allow a maximum
of eight di^fferent sounds to be
played simultaneously. Although not
an original idea (Ottalyser has been
doing it for months ngw), OctaMed
sacrifices nothing m the sound quaii^
ty department.

Editing ha^ also been tidied up
substantially, OctaMed wili include a
powerful MuiicX-like bar editor
which employs a sort of 'semi-stave'
approach to allow you to view your
musical creation in a more familiar
format than the usual vertical row of
numbers.

Teijo had Intended to sell
OctaMed as a commercial product
for about £50 to £75, but in a fit of
generosity this price has been

USSO^^ slashed to just £1 0. Teijo hopes that
by selling OctaMed at such a Fow
price, many more Amiga users will
be able to afford what will undoubt-
ediy be a major Amiga music release.
For more info, contact AmigaMuts
United on 0703 785680.

More MusiG-X

The news isn't all had for MusicX
owners, however. Microlllusions have
revealed that a number of new add-
on modules Willi soqn be released.
Although they are far from being
major, they further extend the edit^
ing power of Music-X. Here's what is
on offer >

DEFLAM - Nobody can record a
complex keyboard part into Music-X
without a Few mistakes creeping in.
Quantization can correct all the tim-
ing errors, but what about all those
little extra notes that seem to appear
whilit your hands ^ip around the
keyboard? Vou need Deflam. Deflam
will automatically remove any notiSs
shortef than a specified length.
SCATTER - Sequenced music has
always been critisised for being too
"rigid' and perhaps even too 'per-
fect', but you can now inject feel
[timing errors!) into your music to
m^ke it sound m-o-re human. Scatter
achieves this by adjusting the param-
eters of a selection of randomly cho-
sen notes

PftfNTEVENT - rou don't need a
brain the si^e of a planet to guess
what this doesi Put simply,
PrintEvent er,... prints events. It
allovvs you to get a hard copy of the
sequence data displayed within the
Music-X Event Editor,

Books for
musicians

Prolific author RA Penfoid has
rele^^ed 4 new book that may
be of mtei-e&t to Amiga musi-
cians. Published by PC
Publishing, the new book is
r.iFled Advanced Midi Users
Cuiden the follow up to
Ptmfold'i previous Midi book,
«he Prdcticfll Midi Handbook. PC
Publishing can be contacted on
0712 77085^3.

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- Amiga Computing, August 1990

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Master Sound

Capture any sound you hear
and replay it in seconds

It's so easy to use: Simply connect the sampler to your
Amiga, load the sofhvare and immediately you have the
ability to capture sounds with amazing accuracy.

Correct your compact disc player or personal stereo
and digitise sounds to incorporete into your own games
and tunes.

The supplied software provides complete control over
the sampled sounds: Cut and paste them, flip and fade
them and you Ye still only using a tiny fraction of the sound
processing tools available.

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Is getting online getting to your
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calm your bank manager down

IL cannol be denied that what-
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Down the local

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lust as messages and files find
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board given a little time. 5ome peo-
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Clock Watching

With comms perhaps moie than any
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The less lime your modem is hooked
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You can stop the online limer get-
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ties you can lay your bands on.

If you regulariy download files it
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fer protocol you can. Wlost decent
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If waxing fyrica[ at length is more
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The time, the place

Another obvious tip which tends to
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Peter Hickman with a flipping good idea
for getting hundreds of objects onscreen
without incurring speed penalties

Phew... What a nnjnth! The
AMOS Compiler has finally
arrived, and it's pretty nifty.
On my 82000 it compiles the
average program {about 60k of
scMjrce code) in eight Mcondsl A full
review wiH i^ppear soon.

Aho in the fin-al stages of compie-
lion i$ the long-awaited AMOS 3D,
which should be available within
daij^ of reading thts (well, maybe a
couple of weeki).

The 30 system comes cotnplete
with ain editor which allows you to
tnale just about any type of object
you could want simply toy glueing
different shapes together

Smooth moves

The AMOS Public Donnain Library
Hiow has over 190 disks in it5 cata-
logue. Give Sandra Sh^rltey a bell on
0942 495 261 for more inFo afaout
prices and avaiiabiSity.

The last piece of news is that
Mandarin have changed AMOS for
the German and American version^.
Instead of being released with the
Ca$tle AMOS adventure game's ^he
package will now contatn a simple
card file program called Dataflex
(which by the way was written by
me!),

AMOS handles animation very
well, and the theory behind creating
and moving smooth cartoon-like
objects in AMAL is very simple (we
covered this in an eartfer AMOS col-
umn.).

Of course there are limits to the
power of AMAL and you really can-
not have more than about 16 large
objects animating without things
slowing down.

Have you ever wondered how to
get hundreds of objects on a screen
without incurring tbe speed penalties
that you might e^cpecl from any of
the usual animation methods?

The answer is simple - page flrp-
ping. This is a technique' where you
draw objecls on different screens
and then jump between each screen
to create the iNusion of movement or
animation. It's a bit like drawing little
matchstick men in the corner of a
book, each one in ^ different posi-
tion, and then flicking through the
pages to create your own little
movie.

On the cover disk you wilf find a

Cuming I^Xifl
AMOS ^D

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sprite file calfed MEN.ABK, toad this
into AMOS from direct mode and
then go back to the editor.

FiF&t we hide the moiise, and set
up Ivvo variables. SPNUM is the
nurnber of the BOB we will draw
onto the screen and MX SCREEN is
the number of screens (+1) we viflll
use to do our page flipping.

CLojii Editor
Cloie Norkbtn^h

nidi U

i;iSCREEN=&

SPHUI-1

Next we myst open up all of the
screens that we will use in the demo.
Half meg owners should just about
have enough memory to open seven
screens if they don't have an external
drive (if you do switch it offl).

For [=l> Tt! MUUl\i

flash Off
Ciirs Dff
CL9 Q

Get Sprite PitDtt«
Screen Hide I

Now comes the interesting bit - we
first draw a man, flip the screen,
draw another man (m a slightly dif-
ferent position), flip the screen etc.
We change the B0& we will use by
incrementing the variable SPMUM.

When the Amiga bleeps just press
a key and you wfll see the next piece
of animation drawn.

Far T?0 To IKSCIfEU
Scrctn H4i Uft

Add scR.i,^ tD nrnmn

Str»n ShD4 %il

Streen To Frent SCR

Scrtin set

Fiite lob 1;D,7D,SPN1I|I

M iPIVn^l.l Td 7
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Now we should have seven screens

in memory^ e^h with the picture of
a runnjing man in a slightly different
position, We must animate these
screens by fNpping constantly
through the screens. In the loop
below I have chosen to wait for five
VBLs (I explained VBLj in an eariier
article!) before we swap to the next

screen. If you want to speed up the
animition Just change the WAiT 5
line to WAIT 3 (or ^n even lower
number for uhtra speed)).

For L0P=1 u 5m
S^rsen Hid* SCft

Ad(E scR,i,Q 1^ mmm

Si re en Shou SCR t kr«»n SCR
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Hsit LIJP

When writmg a program which
caOs another AMOS program (a bit
like the Fun School 3 menu does)
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the screens currently opened.

Unfortunately you do not always
know what screens have been
opened by a previous program, so to
dose every screen just use the fol-
lowing lines of code

l#hUe Scr«no-1

Scrftn Close Scrtin
Vehd

If no screens are opened then the
function SCREEN will always retum
the value -1, otherwise it will return
the number of the (currently chosen
screen. Simple huh?

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but let's face it, one mm running
about and taking up seven screens in

memory is hardly impressive is ^L7 So
how about a few more, 32 more in
fact?

The next program follows the for-
mat of the previous one except that
in the middle you will notice that iE
draws a fot more men on each
screen!

H^di On
SPNUM1
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Nifty or what? We've run out of
room for this issue but on the cover
disk you will find a few more exam-
ples, including movement combined
with page flipping (arni my headll).

Have a play around with the rou-
tines and see what you can achieve
it's great fun.

Oh and by the way, the graphics
for that geezer we have been experi-
menting on were drawn by a whiz^
of a graphics artist named Stuart
Cambridge. Thanks Stoo!

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Margaret Stanger
uses her Intuition and
goes for a scroll..

y previous article des-
cribed hgw to creaLe ^
screen displ.ay using mu-
ll nes from the graphics libraiy, A
view and several viewpgrU were
defir^ed, and some simple drawing
done in each one.

Each Intuition screen also has a
viewport Once the viewport acWress
is known the primitive graphic rou-
tines can be used on a screen and its
windows.

Each vievvpoit has a Raslnfo slmc-
ture containing a poir^ter to the
bitmap with the bitplane infor-
mation, (f the viewport
has dual plajrfiefds, tine
first Raslnfo contains a
pointer to the next
Raslnfo, which has a
pointer to the second bitmap.

The picture in memory can
be larger than the screen
image, by creiting a bitmap larger
than the viewport area. The RasRnfo
structure has the offsets for the rela-
tive position of the display to the
complete picture.

it is possible to link an Intuition
custom screen to a custom bitmap
when opening the screen. In this
example the bit planes (^0 x 400)
are larger than the viewport (320 ??
200), and the offsets are iera to start
with.

If the X and y offsets are changed.
the viewport ( or the window) dis-
plays a different part of the bitplane.
A very smooth scroll can be pro-
duced by increasing or decreasing
these offsets up to four pixels at a
time, and updating the display
instruction^.

If the offset is i, and the ftasrinfo
structure rired :

scr«LL3i{f>
Li^ng i;
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3

Every time the RasJnfo offsets are

changed the display needs to be
updated using the commands
MakeVPoft, MrgCop and LoadView.
The command MakeVPort asks the
system to make a set of display
instructions (or copper list) from t;,
the structures in the viewport.

The command MrgCop merges
these copper lists into a
single instruct ion list.
LoadView turns on
direct memory access
(DMA) and the display
will be shown on the ^"^^
screen. Any flicker can be feduced
by waiting for the beam to reach
the top of the frame-
When using windows and
screens, the Intuition Library has a
vefy convenient RemakeOisplay that
updates the display in just one com-
mandr

The program produces the display
by opening a 5UPER_BITMAP win-
dowon a screen with its CUSTOM-
SCREEN and CUSTOMBITMAP flags
set.lt could h^ve been written as in
last month's CODE CLINIC using
graphics primitives only^ without the
Intuition Screen.

C

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{

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Both the screen and the window
are linked to the bitmap (BMred)

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screen.

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The display scrolls rightp yp,, left

gnd down with a short delay in

between.

t

fgr(i=D;1(lQD;if+] icrfllUS^J;
^*scrflll right*;

D«Li:r(t[^D>;

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fpr(i=1D&n>-l;ili) SEroLlx^i);
;*ttfftll Ki^Vi

fiPt1=1D&;i>-l;iii) scrglliFtiJi

After the scrolling the program
closes the window and screen, frees
the biiplanes ^nd exits.

The program uses graphics libraiy
routines, and also includes intuitton
library routines and the Delay routine
from the dos iitarsry. Summaries of
these libraries were included on the
support disc in earlier parts of this
series, and the routines are described
in fyli in the ROM KIRNAL MANUAL
- Libraries and Devices.

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Are you confused by columns or having prob
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The dctlgfi of & putg^ \% ^\l-imponaf\t. And, no. wt dor'T c<3py our design from somcvi^hcre dsif

However carefully you
typeset the wgrds, write
the headlines, choose
Ihe typefaces and illustrations, the
r^^ult can still look a me^s if you
ignore the design of the page, which
i5 not necessarily dependent on any
of these.

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looking publication ii to rind some-
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- and copy it (a technique not
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designed work w^ill help you appreci-
ate its qualities. It does need to be
something similar though. iV^ no
good producing a newsletter for
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job application in the style of Viz.

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damental printiple that underlies
most modern professional designs.
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Once that is mastered (and it
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lifetimes), you can approath any DTP
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nothing more than a division into
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the columns that will contain your
body X^Ki (chat is, the main text of
your publication e^tcluding head-
lines) and the spaces between the

columns. These are measurefiiefits
set automatically by DTP programs
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margins and the number and width
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shown on-screen.

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automatically. But DTP programs do
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ment),

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all and basically unchanging shape.
Variety is provided wSthin the
columns by using type in different
sizes, styles and more than one type-

Our guest columnist John
Walker edits the Amiga area on
Micronet This article is part of a
series on DTP which can be
accessed by keying 'AMIOAif
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Designers have usually worked up
I heir layouts on special pages printed
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Speccy emulator

f am wriLing in reply Ho the letter heided
Xorninodore Spetcy' in the letter pagei of issue
35 of Amiga Comutmg.

The Spectrum Emulator h available from our
PD Ubraty at a cost of £1 For the disk p)u5 £1 P&P.

The emulator has a range of features including
the f^ifity to load games from tape via a sound
digitisefr which nneans thai your old Spectrum
games can be transferred to the emulator without
trouble]

A complete listing of our offRne PD library can
be downloaded From our bulletin board on 0293-
884 n 7 (300 - 2400bd) gr by post from Runway
A500 (PD Sales), The Hope. Vkirage Road,
CrawJey Down, Sussex: RHIO 4|J.

I hope thi» information is of heip to readers
inquiring about the emulator.
Steve SheMon, Sysop Manager, Runway A500,
Crawley Down. Suise^c.

How's this for starters?

Judging by some of the necent letters and com-

menti, a few of your reader^ want to know how
to start irr assembly language pnogrammmg.

Tve wasted quite a few quid on ov^r-technical,
a ssume-you-know-the- basics type boohs, and
have finally found a good, entry level 6ak pro-
gramming book - 68000, 68010, 68020 Primer,
by Kelly- Boot le and Fowler, pubHshed by Sams,
JSBN 0-672-224054 (£20).

Although not specifically for the Amiga, it j^ an
excellent book for beginners.

Keep up the good work on a truly excellent
magajinie and. no, I don't have an interest in the
book company!

MFchael Ferrier, Louth, Lines.

I want to be trafisformed

Do any of your readers know of anyone who ^till
sells The Transformer' PC emulator? I know it is
sfow and ii text-based, but most of my PC pro-
grams are te;(t-based anyway. Can you help?

L F lon^si, Fordingbrldge, Hants,

Is there anybody out th^re who can advise?
Call us or write to us, and well be happy la
pass on any glad tidings.

The creative urge

I wouJd like to buy AMOS The Creator. However
my brothers tell rme it is almost impossible to
learn and start to wave their hands about to indi-
cate the size of the manual.

Personally i reckon I could cope with the 300
page manual the only problem being the time I
would have to spend going through it.

Are they right in saying it is extremely hard to
get to grips wtth, or are they just being sexist? Do
you know of any demos ol AMOS } can get hold
of to try it out before \ buy it?

KateHall. WlJbech, C^mbs.

Buy it and pmve them wrong, Kate. There h
some work Involved, as with all applications
whfch fall into the more serious category, but
if yoy're keen enough to succeed, you'll win

Write to Ezra Surf, Amiga Computfng, Europa House, Adiington Park,

through. Demos of AMOS? Contact Sandra
Sharkey at th^ AMOS Public Domain Library,
25 Park Road, Wigan, WN6 7AA, Tel (0942)
49S26L

Groveriing pays off

Congratulations on the best Amiga magazine by
far: the others are only worth a casual fJick
through in the locat newsagents. Amiga
Computing is the onfy one worth buying.

I have only had my Amiga 500 for a short
while but I am already very interested in DTP
applications. I am contemplating buying
t'agesetter 11, but would like to know more about
It before I spend my hard-earned money.

In the March issue I noticed a about in the
'Ir^ternational Rescue' section about an article
reviewing this program" m April 1990.
Unfortunately I also noticed ar^ item m the san>e
iSiue saying back issues are not available.

Surely someone at Amiga Computing must
have a pife of back issu*5 in their personal stock
because I can't believe such important contribu-
tions to Amiga literature would be thrown away,
certainly not by such intelligent people! (is that
enough grovelling?).

Please, please, PLEASE could someone send me
a photocopy of thrs article? I know it wiJI be an
objective and thorough review, arnJ I promise I
will buy ^h/^ry issue in future.

Simon Snewin, Stoke-on-Trent

lack Issue availability h unfortunately restrict-
ed to the \A^i six issu«s at any one time, and It

would be an adnninistratlve nightmare for m
to st^rt ^ general photocopying lervke.
However, Simon, because you've grovelled so
well, and so long as you keep your side of the
bargain, you will be receiving a copy of our
objective appraisal of Pagesetter li in the post
any day now!

Incidentally, those back issues for the past
six months shoiiid be ordered from Database
Direct, FREE POST Ellesmere Port, South WirTal,
L65 3EB. Back issues ir^clude the cover disk and
the cost is £1.10. Postage rs, of course, free H
you're in the UK. See our Reader Offer i near
the back of this issue for full details,

Th^ best solution is to place a regular order
or become a subscriber, ther> there's no chance
of mrssing anything!

Sexisnt takes a bashing

• Slevie Kennedy's articie ^aiiirg for an end lo ^^x-
isTT] in computing in ihe February hsue of Amiga
Computing abvibifS^y ^injck a chord with the wril&r
at Ihe hiiowing letteL

fu^i to fiil you in on the backgroand, f. A. Mori
hot wfilten to another AmigQ mogoime, Amiga
il$er inlnernQtionol port of MuxweH Speciolht
Mogoiifie^ (with which vve hove m connec^/o/ij
complaining about an artkte piijgging on opparent-
ty Qvertty semi compoleriied jigsow puizie.

in thai ktl^, ^he soyi ihe is "appoited that you
^identiy fetl it wonhwhik /o f^eiebrote this waste of
timt and intetligence on ifie port of ihe (diHjbteis
mak) pri^fommer, and with a piciufe, too, " and
a{kis: "ft fealty h about lime thai $ome thought was

Amiga ComiHiLifig 1 43

given to the ramn d'etre of compuiir^g^ Would

YOU tike your lon/broih^f/fQihef to buy thii jig-
saw? Do you thifjk it likdy thot your dai^ghler/^i^-
tef/n70ther wmld buy ii? WoM you like your
daughtermtr/mothm- to hove b&en the modd for

Her teiter to u$ js os Wtotw:
I endow s copy qF a letler i have seni to Amiga
Uier Intematiol. following your back page artkle
in the February 1991 iii^eof Amiga Computing.

This letter ex-pr^ised my views on wsiist soft-
ware ar>d also on wider lisues. Sexism pewades
th€ entire computer industry and the possible
pun:hase of sexisl software is t!ie END of the line,
ralherthan the beginning.

Who sold you your machine? Who have you
spoken to on the phone about your machine?
Who writes the majority of both letters and arti-
cles in the magazines you lead? Who opened up
your ^bOK^ if anyone ever has? Who are the peo-
ple YOy consider to be most computer literate?

As you say. Stevie, untii this i5sue is addressed
by public debate these very serious problems will
proliferate and girls ^nd women wiil have less
and less influence on tfie very labric of the soti-
ely of whkh they are ^ legally equal part.

I regret that neither of my tetters are on
Amiga readable floppies but 1 am in fact a PC
user! (Doesn't stop me having views, though!).

All the b^t.

F A Marl. Kingsbury, London

• Do you hiwe a view on lexism in comput-
tng? If so, why not Help to keep the debate
going by dropping me a line?

Top of the zaps?

While browsing through the magazines on the
shelves of my local newsagent I had an idea
which, if adopted, could change people's views
on computer games.

My idea is the creation of a television pro-
gramme, much iike Top of the Pops, but to do
with computer software.

The programme tould include features such

as:

• Top Ten Games - a list of top games for all for-
mal

• Interviews - conversations wiith top program-
mers and graphic artists etc.

• Previews - in depth view of games currently
being developed.

% News - information like game prices and
release dates

I believe such a programme would be warmly
received bj/ the puniers. However, perhaps the
computer magazines - yourselves included -
may see thij Vyp^ of television series as a thieat
Lo your livelihood as gamesplayers would not
have to psy to receive up-to-the-minute compui-
ef game news.

What ate your vtev«?

S N Hardly, Sheffield

f love your idea of a computer games TV pro
gramme. It would probably be bei^t suited to
Channel 4, which bravely caters for many dlf^
ferent Interests and groups. It mi^ght be an
even better kka if it covered not only games.

Chaos and Megadeath...

I bought my Amiga SOO second-hand about
three monthi ago, and for a white everything
woTl<ed perfectly. 1 received many games with
the computer which were all copied. When 1
loaded up one of the disks, a message
appeared on the screen reading: ''Chaoj and

Megadelh present another cool spread

does thii bootbloclt offend you?? If so then call
me (find my number and its usage will be

stopped).

Examining the bootblock more carefully
with Killdavirus 111 I found the phone number
but when I dial it I get the unobtainable tone.

Biamsning some of my other disks, I found
that one was infected with tbe AIDs vimi and
anoHier with the North star virus. I tried con-
tacting the person from whom 1 had bought
nty Amiga but he has moved away.

Now, for the same reason, I can^t s^ve any-
thing, or copy or iniUalise any disks, and thus
can't move the vimses^

Sometimes, after the computer has been on
about 20 minutes, it crashes and a gum medi-
tation message appears on the screen.

Please help.

Cregor McCarthy, Dundee.

You are suffering because of the stupidity of
your machine's previous owner, I m afraid.
yslr>g 'cracked^^ software has its price:

So what can yo do now? A good start
would be to consign all your pirated games
to the formatting pile. If any of your com-
mercial software has been damaged run It
through 'Killdavlrus", It may salvage the
software. It may not. Try to keep these
in^ted disks away from your computer and
it should be fine.

but some of the other Interesting appfeations,

too.

Would we see such a programme as a threat
to our livelihood? I seriously doybt whether a
show lasting half an hour or so could ever rival
the range of coverage we give In Amiga
Computing^ We estimate that to cover all
aspects of the Amiga like we do would require
a programme lasting the best part of a day!
And then, what about the formats covered by
other magajines?

School for computer fliers

I caught Amiga-iiis last November when I had

Sublogic's Flight Simulator Z demonstrated to me

at a friend's home.

A few days later, nty friend helped me spend

. around £600 on an ASM and accessories so that I
could also ejiperience the mysteries ol this conv
puter and satisfy my craving for flight simulation
programs.

I am fortunate that, some years ago, I held a
licence to fly small fan^driven aircraft and also
gliders. So it was not loo difficult for me to get
these programs airborne and bacl^ dovm on the
ground in one piece.

Some of the less flight-experienced people
who also own Amig^s and have flight sim pro^
grams seem to get disheartened quite quickly

after a few crashes. So my question is to pro-

grammersi Why has there not been an instruc-
lk>n program written to teach budding computer

pilots lo fly?

I feel sure it could be done, with instruction
prompt! flashing on the screen, 'talking' the
trainee around the circtiit and then letting one
'go solo" when sufficient experience has been

gained.

Has;here ever been a glider, sailplane pro-
gram produced for the Amiga? If not, why not?
The chaNenge of one^s solo 'Cs^ then progressing
to bronze, silver, gold and the diamonds woukd
make an interesting program.

As with FS2. if scenery disks could be added^
one could soar over the Alps in wave in an
attempt to r^ach record attitudes. The potential
challenge is almost endless,

Makolm |^r Chingford, London

Sounds llk« you could become a real high flier
in the software world, Malcolm. All you need lo
do is learn how to pfogram! Falling that, why
not present your ideas to some of the software
companies? Be veiy businesslike and make sure
you don't end up parting with an outline for a
sim program for little or no reward.

As for gllder/sallplane programs for the
Amiga, we don't know of any existing ones-
Does anyone else?

No show for the Scots?

Can anyone tell me when there will be a com-
puter exhibition that will be open to the general
public in Scotland?

\n Glasgow recently there has been a trade
only computer exhibition. 1 am Sure the comput-
er hardware and software companies would find
it to their advantage to have an exhitttiton that is
suitable to everyone, similar to those held in
Wembley in December or Hammersmith In

lanuary.

Why is it that all these public exhibitions are
only in the London area? Come on, computer
companies - there are other areas for you to
show your merchandise. This also applies, to the
computer press,

' I am sure the readers of Amiga Computing
and other computer magazines will agree with

me on the above.

Robert Dalgleish, East Kilbride.

Yes. Robert, I'm sure they do! ispe<:lally the
many thousands of Scottish ones. The show
you refer to. which took place in Glasgow al
the end of February, must obviously be the
Scottish Computer Show. Unfortunately, this Is
the only major Scottish show we've had any
details of In recent times. Can anyone advise
us of any others in the pipeline? We d be glad
to print details on our news pages.

i

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used to announce winners of our
new monthly competitions and
offload all that trivial stuff that some-
how doesni fit Into the rest of the
mag^zjrire.

We wil! also be offloading the
contents of our magic cupboard to
any readers who can be bothered
entering downright pointless compe-
titions

Over the last three yt$n we have

had intemifttent trivia sections going
by various names. First there was
^Guru's Haunr and then the infa-
mous last Blit''

With io many down-right quirky
things happening oat in Amigaland
now U as good a time as any to
introdiJce a dowr^ right silly page.
Thus- you are now reading Rock
Lobster We don't aspire to the tiliiy
depths of other magazine trivia
columns - Rocic Lobiter will be silly
but not stupid This page will be

Caught in
the act!

In the best tradition of trivia. ,
here is fehe first of many j
Rock Lobster Caption
Competitiom.

The photo Sihows freelance
greniui Nik "Green'' Veitch caught in the act
with borror'Star ctjm computer game celeb Elvira.

Ttie best caption wini a stunning pri^e. Any references to siiicon valley will
be laughed at, then disqualified.

Entries to: Caughi in the Act, Rock Lobiier, Amiga Computing, iuropa Ho^ie,
AdlifrgtoTi PorK Adltngl^m, hAgcdesMd W0 4NR

Now you NTSC it, now you don't!

ApQlogles to our thousands of poor ol" American buddies who have been hav-
ing problems getting our CoverDisk to co-operate. The reason is a smart little
utility called ONLYPALI which is part of the disk's startup. Its sofe purpose in ■
iife is to reset the Amy it it chooses to tioot up in NTSC mode rather than
Britain's trusty PAL system. Being American, most USA Amigas take great
offence to PAL ^nd refuse to boot up in it. Thi5 means that our disk just keeps
rebooting contin uously^ causing much burring and clicki ng and little else

We will be making alternative arrangements from ne>?t month onwards.
For the moment, if you are a US reader boot Vf^ith -your normal Workbench
disk. Making the CoverOisk ^NTSC Iriendly" Is a simple matter d editing the
Startup sequence file in the S: directory and removing the reference to

0NLVPAL1 .
Ali you techno-junkies might be interested to know what the PAL and

NTSC acronyms actually stand fof.

PAL represents Phase Alternate Line, the 625 lirte TV lyslem used in the UK.

Most nari(ed Anwrican teily junkies will try to persuade you it means Picture

Always Lousy

NTSC is the American 525 line system^ If s described by most UK TV tech-
nicians as Never Twice the Same Colour. The true origin of NTSC ii the
National Television Standards Committee,

Loopy on Lemmings

20 Things you probably
didn't want to know
about Lemmings!

1 The Oxford Handy Dictionary
define! a lemming as a small
arctic radeftt reputed in migration \q
rush headlong onto the §ea and
drown.

2 The original idea for
Lemmir^gs was a
Dpainl animalion
drawrs by DMA pro-
grammer Mik Daiiiy.

i ThE song Syncronicity 2 by ihe

Polite has a line "Packed like

Lemmings into shiny metal

boxes.""
I Ideas to include lures such as

Mission impossible, A-T$am,

Scooby Doo, Addams Family etc

knocked on the head due to lear of copyfighl '

probletns.

5 When ST Programmer Brian Watson fint saw a lemming, exploding he laughe<J

so miKh he f ell off hii chaifl

6 Th« firsi cover drawings for Lemmings proved to be tao aHen ^nd u^ifriendiy
kwking, so designs were altered to the c^te hjrry cnfcatures in the Hue \mp
sujEs we have tome to know and love.

7 The next word in the dictionary after Lemmings is ''Lemon".
a The gime will probably fwver be converted to the ZXfli .

9 One level c^ref^jlly designed by Dave lones to be extremely hard, turned out
to be so easy it wai con^iderpd stupid to include it in the game.

10 Trying to sample high pitched squeaky mssages that are easy to understand
is vefy diffiojlt. Ever)^ne also felt stupid trying it!

n The first person to complete the game was a chap in the States who cm\pk^-
ed ali the levels in a 20 hour marathon stint

12 O^trary to popular belief. Lemmings do not appear in the film *High Noon^

13 No Lemming has ever become President of the United Stites of America, yet

14 There are over JiO animations of the little guy^.

15 The enamel Lemmings badges have Ijecome a much iought after commodity.

16 There is a special tevel in each of tfre four sections of the game. The^ are all
horn other Psygnosis games, and shwid be easily recognisable to most Amiga

owners.

17 DMA Design are now working with Amiga 3000^=5 as th«ir development
machinei. Tlwse are tnjJy exteikent machines dudes.

m Watch out lor the Lemmings band demo coming soon to an Amiga near yw.

19 Lemmings are not cannibals and do not smoke. The guys on the cover of the
bosn are only pretending .

20 Lemmings i^ undoubtedly the best game ever wiitten fof any computer any-
where, probaWy.

Win a Lemming!

Do you crave your very own cutesy Lemming to float pfoudly (»)tt to
your monitor? Would you like to win one of the much soughl after
Lemming's enamel badgei? Do you liave a space on youi wardrobe for a
"Save ttie Lemmings" itickflf? Act now and all your wildesi dreami could

be reilisedl
' The first 20 people to have their postcard or a sealed down envelope
float from the mirky depths of the magic sack will be getting iome
Lerrhmlngs in the posL

Send your beggmg leuers to: Lemmings!, Rock Lobster, Amiga
Computing, biropi House, Adlington Park, Macclesfield SKIO 4NP

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And, as a special bonus, you can receive

a free piece of software if you contact us
hftfare4lh June 1991.

The experience and expertise of our
technicians ensures that your computer
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cost. And each repair will be carried out
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To schedule a repair and claim your free
software, simply call Michelle or
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Please be ready to give your name^
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a thing of the past Because Vidi splits the RGB
colours electronically there are no focussing or
movement problems experi^encecl by some of our
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